If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.

Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I don’t anymore.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.

Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

Major fluctuations in weight gain and loss are detrimental to your health and embarrassing to explain to your friends and family.

I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.