You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.

Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.

You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

Everybody can tell you how to do it but they never done it

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

Crazy and insane are words used throughout history to describe people and ideas that are simply different.

Schools that cannot tolerate interesting & enthusiastic eccentrics who work better alone than together are devoid of flexibility & spirit

You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life; no one can take that away.

I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review.

Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.

I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

I am who I am, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves

My secret to staying young... Having no sense of time.

Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.