The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

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.

Wisdom is the intelligent use of our knowledge, whereas sensibility is an intelligent use of our judgment.

Know this much:regret nothing.Each part of your journey is essential to the whole.The moment you are experiencing is as important as your destination.Ninetah, the Daskiny Healer in The Traveler

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I am thinking, ’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.

You don't want to get worse at something.

We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.

There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention.

It only says 'Leave' if you have no identification with yourself as a citizen of this country and you feel you have no obligation to pay your fair share.

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.