Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt.

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

‎To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It’s important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.

I think I'm going to Katmandu, that's really, really where I'm going to

21 Jump Street is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests.

Happiness is not in money, but in shopping.

And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky.

May God preserve you and watch over you.

Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.

Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.