I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.

Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that.

I don't understand the word 'lose', I only understand the word 'learn'

There's no success without failure and no winning without losing.

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

Life is to live it, not to let it live you.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

Don't be afraid to lose. Listen. And always invest in yourself.

Patience, passion and perseverance equals success.

Now look at the crowd. We’ve got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos—and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!

I'm sharp... What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.

Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.

Words without action mean nothing. I’ll show you.

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.

Kind people have a way of working their way inside me and rooting there.