Killing and gangbanging, that's just wrong.

My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.

I'm more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything.

And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready.

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

I feel that luck is a product of hard work.

We're not the cause, we're the effect.

[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.

When I became a man, and I started to understand the difference between the truth and what your parents are supposed to tell you, there's a difference, know what I mean?

It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

You learn to run like a sprinter, you'll be a great distance runner

Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.

Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.

For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.

If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.