If you want to join the ranks of the people who changed the game, change yourself and the people around you as well.

As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life.

If haters hadn't made me angry and made me practice, I wouldn't have gotten this good.

When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

You live your life between your ears.

Never take literally what is said out of anger! They are said just to hurt you – sometimes the opposite could be true!

The important thing to remember is not to forget

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.

I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.

When I was 17, I was so shy I could barely speak or introduce myself to anyone.

And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, Contagious blastments are are most imminent.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.