They started to try and keep us off the air in the beginning.

I could not have made it this far had there not been angels along the way.

If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them.

So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.

When you really believe in God, it gives you a courage, a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

I'm an honest hoe, and all my hoes is honest.

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way.

Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide.

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.

An alternative to love is not hate but patience.

There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

simon: that's disgusting! me: what's disgusting? simon: you know. you put your thing in the place where he, um, defecates.

The rumored frontrunner for [Donald] Trump's Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who of course has no foreign policy experience.

There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.

Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years.