I see ya waiting for the bus early in the morn', brick house with a face like Lena Horne.

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.

It's when you smell the breeze

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.

I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.

Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits.

When I am in pain, I must know that beauty always has been and always will be. This is as close to eternity as I need to be.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

In the future, there will be fewer but better Russians.

I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.

Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.

Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.