If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.

Don't lower your standards for anything or anyone.

I play by my own rules so please think twice before you step into my life.

People gonna talk whether you doing bad or good.

Spend time with people who know how to use their days well. Just as iron sharpens iron, positive people will inspire you to be positive.

Never a failure,always a lesson.

Hurt me with the truth,don't comfort me with a lie.

Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.

I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body.

Nothing in life comes easy. Everything comes with a sacrifice

I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up.

Anger gone as quick as it had come, now I just felt like an idiot. Not that this was the first time, and probably wouldn’t be the last. (Ray)

You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.

Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.

You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.

In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'

Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination.