Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.

There's also a down side.

T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.

Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.

There were so many things I have had to say sorry for that I wasn’t sorry about.

Acting makes me feel vulnerable. Especially depending on the type of emotion I'm portraying in a scene.

But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.

The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.

We can admire what we see, but we can only love what we truly know.