I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.

Pull down the shades on the windows of your soul, And gaze into your mind and watch the wisdom unfold.

You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.

Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

A touch may not always be a love but love is always a touch!

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.

Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.

In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken.

Longevity is a big part of credibility.

In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.

I just don't watch a lot of TV.

If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn’t have expected to be shot.