Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

Why can't we all just get along?

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.

The Gottschalk was a fine weapon."You, " I said to it, "are on probation. You'd better impress me."Great. Now I was talking to guns.

[Al-Qaeda's supporters] are aware of the cracks in the Western financial system as they are aware of the lines in their own hands

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved.

A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore.

Strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.

Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.