I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent

Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

Hope is an undiscovered disappointment

Authors are the closest thing man would come to understanding God. It is a remarkable thing to conjure up a life and create its story.

Lots of folks want success without sacrifice. Life doesn't work that way. Be willing to pay the price for your dreams.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.

I don't want to go to Peru. "How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

Sometimes I feel an impingement of something I went through in another lifetime. But I like to concentrate on the absolute present. That's why I love my animals. They live in the present.