The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

An effective life is a life of purpose

As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.

I was stupid, mad and dead, but the Lord Jesus saved me from my stupidity.

If people could fall apart, why couldn't they fall back together?

Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.

Do not let anyone else run your business

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.

Be the mirror in which people admire their true potential.

And I... started off dumb, raised by the hoodrats, listen to the radio wishin that i could rap.