It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.

Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that.

I don't understand the word 'lose', I only understand the word 'learn'

There's no success without failure and no winning without losing.

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

Life is to live it, not to let it live you.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

Don't be afraid to lose. Listen. And always invest in yourself.

Patience, passion and perseverance equals success.

Now look at the crowd. We’ve got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos—and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!

I'm sharp... What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.

Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.

Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.

I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.