Let your children go if you want to keep them.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.

That was when I learned that kindness could break a heart just as sure as meanness. The difference was the kindness made that broken heart softer. Meanness just made the heart want to be hard.

You're just so lucky blood's so hard to get out of the carpet.

fall in lovewith your solitude

It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher.

Unfortunately, in many cases, the rule book goes way too far - it tries to tell people how to be instead of explaining what we're trying to do.. We need recipes, not rules.

...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.

There is no better education than rap battling in terms of performance. It makes you fearless.

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

I'm someone who has always been very stubborn and strong-willed. I never gave up.