A lot of people are burning' C.D.'s. There are a lot of people burnin' peoples stuff, and that hurts a lot of rappers.

When you down and out don't nobody trust ya, but when you got bread it seems like everybody love ya.

Everything happens for a reason, but they all lessons.

You know why they hate me, cause they love me.

When you don't pray, the devil rides ya when ya sleep

Let me tell you something. I ain't scared of nothing. I came out my mama.

Ain't that a shame how they f-ck up ya name.

Prison is not a place for humans. Period. It's just an animal house.

I just try to stay around the same people, stick around the same group.

People expect more and more every time.

I could be a comedian. I could be a gangster. I could play all of those parts, even for the first time... I'm versatile.

For church buildings not to be enough is to build and equip church members to send them out

Everything God created was created in a seed form, small and miniature.

Trees were made of vibrant green leaves sitting on the shoulders of shy green leaves too embarrassed to show themselves.

When we go to our meeting with God we should go like a patient to his doctor first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.

Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better to have wisdom first.

I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!

I'd just as soon be on a good Steinway or Yamaha just as well.

In this universe it is Love that binds everything together. Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life.

Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.