Teaching is a gift you give not only to others, but also to yourself. You give and you receive, you teach and you learn.

When you manage your expectations, you let yourself soak in the joy of what is actually happening around you.

Life changes as seasons change. And with each season, we, like the farmer, have a job to do in the cultivation of our Don't Die® spirit.

When you use life's curve balls to create positive energy, you cultivate a Don't Die® spirit that powers you through moment by moment so that you live your life to the fullest until the very end.

Abundant evidence exists to prove that we are continually creating excuses to explain why we do not reach our goals.

Synchronicity occurs at the intersection of your awareness, response, perspective, and action.

Not everyone takes action to harvest the experiences of the seasons of life in order to enjoy their bounty.

To get what you want, you better learn from the experience.

Perspective-changing events can have many parts. One part can be a tense, laughter-filled promise. Another part can have no laughter at all.

Change your awareness and your perspective changes.

The thing about perspective-changing events is that they usually don't announce themselves as such.

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.

There is only a recession of the things that people don't want.

The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall - it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.

You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.