It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

People who keep journals have life twice

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

If the devil succeeds in separating you and isolating you from other Christians, then he can destroy you

True heartfelt gratitude offers moments of profound reflection, on the blessings which constantly fill our lives (KR, 1998)

I was connected to God like that, and because he was there, I was connected to the whole of his creation.

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

Music begins and ends in the air - it's got to be shared.

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

Man must strive, and striving he must err.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

Possibility is the oxygen upon which hope thrives.