I'm really open to just about anything but I think the real dream is to be able to write my own thing.

Dreams are reality waiting to happen

Life happens. Adapt. Embrace change, and make the most of everything that comes your way.

Don't let the world around you defeat the belief within you.

Stop hoping, start believing.

I know that each and everyone of you have felt, at one point, like you couldn't go on. But then you found hope. There's always a way to find hope. Remember that.

Live like you're at the bottom, even if you're at the top

There's always some way to find hope. Remember that.

It doesn't matter if the world is pulling you down. With Christ you have everything.

I thought the popular kids were the cool kids. I got caught up in that, and it was bogus. School is about finding who you are because thats more important than not being yourself.

I think you are the best you can be when you feel free, when you feel open. So I think keeping that mentality, keeping positive, is key.

There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around.

Enlightenment is the unprogrammed state.

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.

The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans.

I don't want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

The only reason I started using samples was because people talked about me not sounding like Kanye or The Heatmakers.