I cleaned up my act, and I made this rap thing work for me. I thought people would respect me for that. But instead, it's, 'Oh, he's sold all these records, and now he thinks he's all that.'

I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real

Stay far from timid only make moves when you're heart's in it, and live the phrase the sky's the limit.

Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.

Never let them know your next move.

Damn right I like the life I live, Cause I went from negative to positive.

We can't change the world until we change ourselves.

If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man.

Sky is the limit and you know that you keep on, Just keep on pressin on. Sky is the limit and you know that you can have what you want, be what you want.

Climb the ladder to success escalator style

Move over Lucifer, I'm more ruthless, leave you toothless.

Growing up is the greatest adventure of all.

There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.

A church is a hospital for sinners not a museum for saints.

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?

I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.

The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.