I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid.

Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.

To experience spiritual victory, you must depend on God's resources.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.

Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.