Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew.

Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they who scar beneath the points of daggers.

Everything burned, everyone lied, and no one paid for it but the ones in the muck.

The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar—another means to control.

Duty and honor are oft enough realm only for those with security to afford them.

Without shame, without conscience.

Sometime it's really hardest things to keep yourself alone.

Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent.

I feel like a Mac store! I have a Canadian iPhone, an American iPhone and an iPad. I'm constantly downloading music to iTunes.

I'm never going to let nobody take those kids. They Michael's kids. They have no right to try to take those kids. It's going to be a big mess over that.

Every day you must unlearn the ways that hold you back. You must rid yourself of negativity, so you can learn to fly.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.