Wisdom comes from disillusionment.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

If you want to be happy or if you want to be miserable—either way is your choice. So choose to be happy.

What makes you succeed must be possessed where it cannot be taken away. The internal capacity to succeed is more important than the external and temporal manifestation of success.

Do good, and you'll always be a constant reminder of your good-self.

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself.

Find your bliss and your joy, know that you are a white light disco ball with no ceilings and no limitations.

I've always been a MC that wrote socially and politically aware songs, although I listen to all types of hip-hop. This time around I got tracks that make me say "Tupac Shakur would be proud."

I don't have time to be negative.