It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.

My smiles don't result from good things, they result in good things.

I feel like people didn't understand where I was about to go. And a lot of people still don't.

If you believe, work hard, and smile there's nothing you can't accomplish.

My team and I live by 3 words: RELATE. LOVE. INSPIRE

From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing.

So I'm in the library, and I have keyboards out and my headphones out. Everybody's like, "Mike are you making beats right now?" and I'm like, "Yeah... sorry!"

Space and time wouldn't let you be mine

I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.

The Lord God is our great helper.

The willingness to challenge hardships taps the power within human beings to transform even a place of tragedy into a stage for fulfilling one's mission.

You have to die a little inside to be reborn as a Stronger & Wiser version of yourself.

Great souls carry great burdens.

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.

Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.

The Word of God tells us of the day when tears shall be gone forever. Until we come to that day, we move through this world in the midst of tears.