Self-programming, what you believe and affirm about yourself, is the basis of who you are.

Not appreciating what we have now, robs us of our abundance even when it exists.

A dream becomes a goal the moment you write it down. A goal becomes a plan the moment you break it down into doable steps. A plan becomes a reality only when you take action.

When you control your thoughts and emotions, you control everything.

One of the first ways to begin building your self-confidence is to focus on what's great about you.

You must recognize that we train the people in our lives how to treat us.

Everything begins with a thought, and thoughts are turned into plans, and plans into reality.

Make no apologies for who you are.

Take charge of your environment.

You can only get more in life by saying YES.

The higher the levels, the higher the devils.

Happiness comes to you when it comes from you.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

I have an addiction to caffeine.

I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important.

We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot.

I don't like the fact that there are so few women in rap.

The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.

The body should not just be something you see. It's also the inside of it. It's frightening and abstract and much more than pretty or not pretty. The shape of it is boring.

Cry Baby wasn't necessarily a baby theme but I understand what they're saying. So like, Cry Baby is definitely a remaining character throughout all of my albums.

For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance