Sometimes you have good days, and sometimes you have bad days. It really depends on how much caffeine you've had.

People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you.

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough

Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better

Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.

To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough.

A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.

These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. --- from the notebooks of Celal Salik

We don't have a lot of men on stage doing flamboyant or theatrical. We have a lot of female pop stars doing it, but where are the guys? Where's the classic pop-rock showman?

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.

The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.

I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records.

If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death.

You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.