It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

This is my life homie, you decide yours

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.

We create things to watch them grow, Ruin, she said. To take pleasure in seeing that which we love become more than it was before.

If there is no one who is perfect, So there is no one better than you

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

The problem is, if you really want the Truth, then you have to have God along with it.

Dance is music made visible

The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well.

Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.