You don't go through life, you grow through life

I try to be an example and live as Christ-like as I can.

First you bring the sugar, then you bring the hot sauce.

Play for one another, and play the right way. The right way is believing in what's on your chest and not what's on your back.

My formula for success is just a lot of hard work. It's believing in yourself. It's a pride that I gotta get better at something every time I wake up.

Few people actually read. Instead, everyone likes pretending they read. If we spent as much time reading as we say we do, we'd be grossly overweight and depressed.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.

I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.

We all have different ways to do things.

I love my family in Baltimore. But on their side of the family, I love their cousin Charles Thompson, because he's from New York like me.

Nothing honors God more than a Big Dream that is way beyond our ability to accomplish!

Nothing Matters Really.

I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.