I perform for soldiers because they are important.

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.

Happiness, it has been observed, is best achieved by those who have been most unhappy heretofore.

Art is love made public.

Life, wherever it leads, Will always be the same, It begs for the best of you.

In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.

You seek help from the elders. A society with elders is healthy. It's not always that way in the West.

The pain of recovery is sometimes worse than the pain of the injury. Allow Jesus Christ to heal your soul.

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

What is the best way to go beyond self-interest and obsession with personal demands, needs and disappointments? The answer is: Whatever you do, may it benefit everyone.

But then we so rarely understand the value of what we possess until it's gone.