I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.

Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.

You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

Everybody can tell you how to do it but they never done it

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

Politics for me started in violence.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

Within three months I had gone from being this black sheep of the town to suddenly becoming a pop star.

Hey, hitting is hard-if you make good pitches that aren't elevated in the zone, you're going to have success.

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.

Here's to responsibility, twice a week.