Everything is humble and positive energy.

Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that.

I don't understand the word 'lose', I only understand the word 'learn'

There's no success without failure and no winning without losing.

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

Life is to live it, not to let it live you.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

Don't be afraid to lose. Listen. And always invest in yourself.

Patience, passion and perseverance equals success.

Now look at the crowd. We’ve got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos—and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!

I'm sharp... What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure.

You need to believe in your passion, no matter how stupid or insane that might make you look to the rest of the world.

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.