You should always be your greatest motivator. Never leave that power in someone else’s hands. Once you learn to love the person you are, there are no limits to the person you can become.

Words, and faith, will only take you as far as your actions allow.

Stop giving the best part of you to those unworthy of that gift.

Don't let life's challenges discourage you. Some things are just out of your control. Make it work for you! The most painful lessons of the past can teach you how to survive in the present .

Never let fear of short term heartache interfere with your long term happiness.

You can't be much good to others, if you're no good to yourself.

If you truly love who you are other's opinions won’t even matter.

If you have the desire, passion and enthusiasm to do something, nothing in the world will stop you.

Don't spend so much time chasing your future that you run over your present.

Once I had been introduced to depression, I realized if I wanted to help my friend and preserve our friendship, I needed to understand what the illness was all about.

Don’t hate on someone whose hard work placed them on the road to success, while your envy and ill-intent put you on a path toward failure.

A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.

For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who is an original and captures something essential.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

Great actions speak great minds.

Because my heat was too full of appreciation for what my friends-- my real friends-- had done for me.

I've found three or four things that are quite interesting to me that I'm focused on. That's been fun.The Clippers is obviously one of them.

I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc... but Jesus.

My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.