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

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!

Just out here workin' hard and doin' what we do best: grind, hustle, and anything possible to create new opportunities.

One part braggart to one part coward. He would fear everyone he did not control. And the next day he would fear those he controlled even more.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

There's no love lost between us.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood?

I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

I was discouraged when I read that [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell said that Trans-Pacific Partnership was dead, but then I was told he turned around and said, "No, it's not."

The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve.