Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

The best revenge in the world is success.

No matter what it is, I think people want the answer they want, they don't want the truth.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

I think the biggest misconception about me probably is ... I don't prey on the weak. I ain't a bully, but I ain't no saint, either.

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

No person ever gave me nothing but God.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you

I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

It's so tempting to try to do it all, so as not to miss out. But to do all of those 'good things' means you'll do none of them well.

May you let the authentic colors of your heart illuminate and may you feel the light within others.

It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after.

A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.

I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.

Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.

Inflation is repudiation.

...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.

But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.