I've been the underdog in my life since I was a kid.

Keep my planets in orbit, Never forfeit or quit, Move forward... I talk with the awkward slang, I walk with the Wu-Tang.

Inspiration is found everywhere if you look hard enough.

Don't wait till you die to go to heaven.

Life comes when you have knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, when you can see for real, touch, and feel for real, know for real. Then you are truly living.

It's harder to make the glass than break the glass.

How can you defame mud when such a beautiful flower grows from it?

How can hip hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever?

A day to God is a thousand years, Men walk around with a thousand fears. The true joy of love brings a thousand tears, In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.

Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.

After knowledge comes wisdom. After wisdom comes understanding.

The Fair Folk don't give back what they take.

Life comes at you hard and fast, it doesn’t slow for anybody. It weathers you, destroys you. It breaks down your mind, body, and soul until there’s nothing left. Then what?

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself.

Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve it. First write it, then we’ll talk about it.

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.

I'll never know what my life would have been like if they hadn't made Lawrence of Arabia. What would I be? I would maybe have 10 children, a very fat wife. I would be very fat myself. I don't know.

Whom shall I call on? Who will share with me The wretched happiness of staying alive?

I love that New York City is a true melting pot.

We believe we can't attract to ourselves what we want because we think we are separate from God, and whether we are able to manifest anything is dependent upon whether God wants us to do that or not.

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.