Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.

God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.

Trust and be patient. You are making it happen, in your own way, it its own time.

I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.

I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.