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

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.

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

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 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.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard

The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

I don't think I make genre movies. There is a certain type of violence in my films but I think I have my own genre because I made it happen like that.

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory!

Not only am I putting music out there, I'm giving part of myself away.

I'm interested in music as an extension of character.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

No book so bad but some part may be of use.

To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.