Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

Her eyes in the half-light suggested night and violets, and for a moment he stirred again to that half-forgotten remoteness of the afternoon.

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

You cannot escape God's call on your life. He will pursue you to the ends of the earth!

But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.

Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.

Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.

Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.