I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

The best revenge in the world is success.

No matter what it is, I think people want the answer they want, they don't want the truth.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

I think the biggest misconception about me probably is ... I don't prey on the weak. I ain't a bully, but I ain't no saint, either.

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

No person ever gave me nothing but God.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you

I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.

They were nothing more than modern day pagan worshippers. Congregants of a religion built on greed and hedonism. The trading floor served as their shrine

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

You cannot lead people you do not influence.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

Love is the flowering of meditation. Meditation brings many treasures; perhaps love is the greatest roseflower that grows on the bush of meditation.

Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.

Its just tryna impress the world and then realizing that, that doesn't even matter really, you gotta impress yourself.

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.