It started off really…claustrophobic. I feel like I was really really protected. Really guarded with myself. I feel like they [Def Jam] were giving me the blueprint and I couldn’t get with that

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

Maybe being a good parent is about improvisation and spontaneity. Maybe it's about genuinely being with your kid. Sometimes though, it is also about being able to catch sick in yours hands.

I know that "what´s up" is just something people say, but it´s a very hard thing to say anything back to.

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

You can't be afraid to get back up and try again, and you really can't do that unless you acknowledge the failure.

The final entrance into Nirvikalpa Samadhi, into nirvana, God-realization, when you become the absolutely best friend of God, can only come when your love is completely pure.

I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.

In other words, with games, learning is the drug.

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.

New York is the last true city.