Trust is like a tear, once it is dropped, it cannot go back.

Perhaps as they say in science love is a reaction, and in art, it is a heart, but for me, love is simply you.

Make your dreams worth more than your sleep.

Freedom isn't a hope for those who live in a cage.

With fire we test gold, and with gold we test women, and with women we test men.

Maybe women forget days, but they always remember moments.

Woman won't accept to be your second opinion, either you choose her or you lose her.

In my society we know how to say things, but we don't know how to realize them. In my society everyone has a perfect personality in public, and a dirty one behind the curtain.

When they want to leave, they accuse you with endless flaws.

The black color is much deeper than to be overwhelmed by grief… Black hides everything within itself in the argument of elegance.

What we do today, echoes forever.

What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm going all out in those terms.

Real dialogue is where two or more people become willing to suspend their certainty in each other's presence.

Without my Vulcan cat suit, Frankenstein wig and pointed ears, I don't get recognized. I love the fact I'm a shape shifter who can go unnoticed.

The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?

I left my fingerprints somewhere - that's good enough. I am my own person - that's good enough. I stand my ground - that's good enough.

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.