Side effect of overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life is that it can cause you to live reactively.

Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.

If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

Thoughts are like seeds. If you want different results in life, you have to figure out which thoughts are capable of growing those results and which aren’t.

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.

Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it's something you're tremendously passionate about.

When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you’re truly free.

If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Every girl should have a little black dress, a great boyfriend blazer and a pair of skinny jeans in their wardrobe.

Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.

You find freedom inside - nowhere else. In the heart of every being is that one space which is free, which is filled with Peace, and which is full of Love.

Sometimes people say yo do you think rap changed you. No doubt it changed me. If I wasn't making records I'd still be hanging every night.

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

I grew. Going outside my comfort zone is a big one for me.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.