I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Never regret anything that made you smile.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

Stories are medicine.

To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that's quite a task

I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought

Fire is next akin to smoke.