Don't wait till you die to go to heaven.

Keep my planets in orbit, Never forfeit or quit, Move forward... I talk with the awkward slang, I walk with the Wu-Tang.

Inspiration is found everywhere if you look hard enough.

Life comes when you have knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, when you can see for real, touch, and feel for real, know for real. Then you are truly living.

It's harder to make the glass than break the glass.

How can you defame mud when such a beautiful flower grows from it?

How can hip hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever?

A day to God is a thousand years, Men walk around with a thousand fears. The true joy of love brings a thousand tears, In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.

Happiness is something you get from yourself. If you're completely satisfied with yourself, nobody can take it away from you.

After knowledge comes wisdom. After wisdom comes understanding.

Just as you must come through a woman's womb to attain physical birth, so must you come through Wisdom to achieve mental birth. And like childbirth, Wisdom often comes with pain.

Cosmopolitan discourse...provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

We define genius as the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.

I think a lot of people don't understand that when I sit out it's not because of this year. I'm thinking about long term. I'm thinking about after I'm done with basketball.

Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.

The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.