War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore.

Show me all your sides, dive with me to your deepest points and guide me to your Everest. I'll always adore the way you are yourself, so don't tell me being sad makes me unhappy or love you less.

Life's a one way road, Don't just stand next to it and wait to get a pick-up back.

you never know your true genius untill you do what you love

Don't care too much about life, in time you'll learn to know yourself better and better.

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

A minute’s success pays the failure of years.

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.

I feel like I know South Africans. I feel like I know our culture.

Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.

I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

Rapping's a release of the good and the bad - that's the definition of hyphy. You can't be like that, you can't get hyphy in, like, a business environment. I can be me. I'm energy. Hyphy is energy.

I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.

You will not really have durable peace without a proper security structure in the Middle East.

There are times when you get frustrated, but the one thing you always focus on is treating people well. You just cannot storm off and freak out.