Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is "no." That's not America.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

None of us can change our yesterdays but all of us can change our tomorrows.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Get mad, then get over it.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

Beauty often depends on not how you look but on who you are.

If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.

The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks he thinks as he lives.

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

People that work at the White House, they stay forever and love the job. Someone asked me, "Was there really a butler that was there for 40 years?" I said, "No, they're all there for 40 years."

Nothing is so contagious as example.

The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.

Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else.

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign.