The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.

If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together.

I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.

I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words

Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.

We should all be much more careful with each other's hearts.

Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.

I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time.

Love always looks nice. I don't really know anyone who doesn't enjoy it when they see it. Anyone who doesn't, I don't really want to know them.

I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else.

all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.

One day, I want enough money to be at the center of a corruption scandal.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.

My goal is really to continue to make music.

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?

I think every rapper should know how to sing, like a little bit. I mean common man it'll make your rapping better straight up.

Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.