But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.

My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.

When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.

Potential is universal, opportunity is not.

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

The importance of education plays a huge role.

And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women. He aint going to have time to quit.

Santa can't die, he punish bad people. Behave well and you won't punished!

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.

I do it live on tape with a band. It's not like I'm doing electronic music with a laptop.

What makes an interview 'difficult'? Well, there are many reasons, but the end result is usually the same: The guest just doesn't seem comfortable answering the question.

I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.