It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet

Never let me slip cuz if I slip then I'm slippin'.

Try to be the king, but the ace is back.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.

And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.

Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

I apologize to the women I’ve hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives.

Beware! said the peridxis's voice in her head. Don't let It's shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one.

How very wet this water is.

You can't get reconciliation between the powerful and powerless unless you disempower the powerful.

It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase.

In foster care it’s easier to measure what you’ve lost over what you have gained, because it there aren’t many gains in that life and you are a prisoner to someone else’s plans for your life.

I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

Listen to you sounding all badass. I bet you're just listening to a CD called 'The Sounds of Crime' while you cruise for chicks outside the Old Navy in your Camaro.

Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.