My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.

I'm more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything.

And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready.

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

I feel that luck is a product of hard work.

We're not the cause, we're the effect.

[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.

When I became a man, and I started to understand the difference between the truth and what your parents are supposed to tell you, there's a difference, know what I mean?

If you 35, 28, or 30 years old, and you decide you're gonna pick up a rag and start bangin', and you can look yourself in the mirror and you still feel like you're a man? That's cool, do your thing.

Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

I am glad I met you and I am glad to say that.

Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year.

Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

My goal is always, how do you get better?

The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible.

We had pathetically simple dreams: to do meaningful work that we could be proud of, to be together, and to be happy.