A long time ago, I made the commitment to dedicate at least one song per album to God. He has been very good to me, and never for one minute do I want Him to think I've forgotten, because I haven't.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

We got to pray just to make it today.

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

Every time you see me that Hammer's just so hype I'm dope on the floor and I'm magic on the mic

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

This is it for a winner, Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner, Move slide your rump, Just for a minute let's all do the bump, Bump, bump, bump yeah.

When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

Automating a mess yields an automated mess.

My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.

It felt now as if I'd never known them and I couldn't know them again. It seemed to me that whatever had existed back in the place where I'd grown up was so far away now, impossible to retrieve.

He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.

The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.

I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.

Live to the fullest, with no regrets in your heart

Kindness is the key to peace and harmony in family life.

You speak what you believe, and you believe you’re doomed. If there’s one thing I’ve learned throughout the years, it’s that what you believe is the impetus for your entire life.

If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.

If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.