When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

The struggle to keep aroused emotions within proper boundaries is won by putting a conscious leash on them and leading them like junkyard dogs right to the throne of grace

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be.

Hard times define one's character.

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.

It's a great feeling to be a part of something - see it from beginning to end - and it's a rare thing that anyone gets to do in any business.

My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don't take myself too seriously.