The best revenge in the world is success.

No matter what it is, I think people want the answer they want, they don't want the truth.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

I think the biggest misconception about me probably is ... I don't prey on the weak. I ain't a bully, but I ain't no saint, either.

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

No person ever gave me nothing but God.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you

I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

the intensityin your eyesburns my penas i write.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Everything beeps now.

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

Before you marry, you have to get shot by an arrow and fall in love,” the boy explained. He paused thoughtfully. “But I don’t think the rest of it hurts as much as the beginning.

We shouldn’t use our own upset as an excuse for not helping.

We want to create hope for the person ... we must give hope, always hope.

Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.

When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.