I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

Never give up on your dream... because you never know what the Lord can bless you with.

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice.

Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.

When you make pain look this good it never wears out.

I'm careful with my heart. I don't take crap from no one these days. I put my foot down. Being a woman, you deserve heaven and earth.

I feel like, if it's supposed to happen, then it'll happen. God will send me somebody special, whenever the timing is right, so I'm just patient.

I think the most beautiful thing is that we're not parting because there were problems. We're parting because we're celebrating each others' growth.

I'll be stuntin like my daddy.

I think nowadays we're often sidetracked by what somebody got popular doing with all due respect to what they do, but it should be about the talent.

...[F]reedom... is a property of all rational beings.

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

The balance of probabilities, therefore, comes out strongly against the existence of a god.

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.

Nobody can be set free from a problem until they're willing to admit they have one.

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

The one thing I take more joy in than anything else in the world is seeing young people develop