Pull down the shades on the windows of your soul, And gaze into your mind and watch the wisdom unfold.

You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.

I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.

Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

Hidden paths can't be walked without moving obstacles.

We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both.

I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them.

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.