I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.

...in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn't do diddily

There's no longevity, living off of negativity.

Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

I have to be perfectly honest: You should have an anniversary to acknowledge the way I work the ebonics.

Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap. From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat.

It's my world, I demand my respect. Give me your girl or get slapped in your neck.

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

Those who love the Gospel will love to be stirred by its truth all over again.

The universe looks less like a big machine than a big thought.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

I'm in a war, a cultural war.

You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.

As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight of trials, our souls receive that form which our Lord desires them to have.

I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.