If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

Pour your heart onto the page.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

You must nurture a close walk with God through prayer, because humility’s strength is grounded in God.

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am

He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.

It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.

Us as rappers underestimate the power and effects that we have on these kids