I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I was such a messed up person and he was still holding on.

Was there ever any question on how much I could take? You kept feeding me your bullshit hoping I would break.

There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel around on his little motorcycle thing.

I've always just been really interesting in humans, whether I knew it or not, back then. To be able to recreate that and express that was definitely something I wanted to do.

You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.

Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

I don't like people being something that they ain't, and we got a lot of that in rap right now.

I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

Give and spend And God will send.

I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.