The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

We only hurt others because we don't love ourselves. Learning to truly love yourself changes your relationship with everyone.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues.

Fly high, feel the music, and forever dance free

Blaming our past for not taking action to change our destiny for good is taken from a weak man’s playbook...

When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.

Germany, South Korea - these are all countries that are investing massively in education. We've got to do the same thing in America.

If you can't sent money, send tobacco.

Union gives strength to the humble.

Does a rose exist that I might behold it? Or do I exist that a rose might be beheld?

Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.