Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

You've got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

To find beauty, look above the boundaries of conformity.

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

Hip-hop music, in my opinion, is still very closed-minded, and if you're trying to do something that's too different, you get categorized as trying to do some kind of "alternative hipster" thing.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

I can't imagine not having a reason to get out of bed at night.

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.

So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.

Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.