People will have their opinions of you, but you must be able to distinguish theirs from yours.

Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow.

Greatness comes from the inside and once you believe you have it, it's yours to share with the world.

‪Fear should stop you for a moment so you can determine whether you're willing to sacrifice something to get you want.

We often don't realize the passing of years until we see them in a child.

Be so focused on believing that you can that it doesn't matter if anyone says you can't.

Behind every dreamer stands an army full of true believers.

If you can remember why you started, then you will know why you must continue.

You may bend, but you will not be broken.

Your greatest disappointment will often lead you to your greatest appointment.

What you feel, and what is real – all just a matter of perspective.

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

You need to take pride in what God has given you.

I've always been that person: If it gets into my head, I've got to do it until I get it perfect - a perfectionist's attitude.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

There are chakras in the hands; you've seen me use those quite frequently when I meditate. I project the shakti, the kundalini, through the chakras in the hands to people I meditate with.

His was the disease we couldn’t cure. His was the good-bye that meant the most

History is the third parent.

Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

If you do things out of time you're weird.

I never knew I was an artist until I did 'Last of the Mohicans'.