I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.

A flower that grow in the ghetto know more about survival than the one from fresh meadows.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.

Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.

You gotta get back to your essence, Use your gifts and share your presence, Don't count your dollars 'til you count your blessings.

Life without knowledge is death in disguise.

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

The temple of God is the holy people in Jesus Christ. The Body of Christ is the living temple of God and of the new humanity.

And the General regrets the night.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.

We feel the need to emphasize with greater clarity the obligation for members of the Church to become more independent and self reliant.

My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.

Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up.