Hip-Hop itself, the culture, the way that it's going you could always see the effect that it has on basketball.

I think everyone has spiritual encounters and feelings but I don't think everyone chooses to acknowledge them.

You can make your mind sharper, you can get sharper with time.

With it all independent I feel like we're doing it one person at a time turning people into believers one person at a time. Just that good old-fashioned grind, get out there, touch the people.

Real dudes move in silence...like a mute drivin a new hybrid.

If you're to the point where you're trying to overcome that means you're at the point where you've admitted that you have a problem, and that might be your strongest point in the addiction.

I've never really been one to stop and smell the roses.

I don't like things to feel forced. I just let it flow, if it's not flowing I just wait a bit in the studio or I go home.

Something that I can say, "I set out to do this, however many years ago, and now I did it." That's a new thing of mine too, is just speaking things into existence.

Manual Lynn? Find out what that is. He wrote every single word in the play, and then everyone just rapped their parts. Imagine if like, Eminem wrote a play, that's what it sounded like to me.

I'm not saying my teachers should have rapped my lessons or anything, but I feel if I had made more of a connection to them I would have gotten more out of school.

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

Tomorrow is a memory best forgotten.

It is impossible to read this opening paragraph without an involuntary feeling of religious awe

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.

We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination

Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.

A dead martyr is just another corpse.

Sometimes holiness demands that we speak up, but oftentimes it calls us to shut up.

Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.