The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid.

Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Most nights, I'm good for only four or five hours of sleep. That leaves the other 20. I have to fill them some way.

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study - which is why most of what gets done is so impoverished.

I love acting, and that's my passion. So I would love to do more movies and some serious things

The first hundred years are the hardest.