I never let any of my sons beat me at video games.

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me?

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.

To see the dawn of a new beginning, You have to make a move in the Night.

A hundred square feet of heaven is far more precious than a million square feet of hell.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

I want to be untouchable and beautiful and completely dead inside.

My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader.

We had no idea that in as little as 35 years more than half the people on Earth would have cellular telephones, and they give the phones away to people for nothing.

Hillary [Clinton] even said that, whether or not teenagers want treatment, they have to get it. So it's involuntary treatment.

The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us.