The moment I made that decision to get in the studio and actually work and study the culture of hip-hop, then everything just started to open up and blossom for me.

Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.

We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us

If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?

The sky is falling, the wind is calling Stand for something, or die in the morning

So next time you feel like your world is about to end, I hope you studied because He's testing your faith again.

Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists.

Life Will Put Many Red Lights In Front Of You, But Sometimes We Must Push On The Gas And Trust God

I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat

Tell me how I stay positive When they never see good in me

We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?

Follow pleasure and then will pleasure flee Flee pleasure and pleasure will follow thee.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.

It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.

I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?" "A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

To be a value investor, you have to be willing [and able] to suffer pain.

The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.

The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.