When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of the world.

Panic does not help, even if you are unable to answer. Try to ask questions to the interviewers as well and it should be impressive enough.

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

Only people of proven character should be placed in positions of spiritual leadership.

If culture was a railroad, I can see the tracks running from the Spirituals to the Hip Hop Nation.

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

But I think you have a right to know what it is you’re not being told.

The internet is like a surround system, a landscape at its most benign, a closed system of surveillance and self-surveillance at its more sinister. Something we can no longer imagine an outside of.

I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that way.