Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.

Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, and vagueness of the finest prose.

So what is a good meditator? The one who meditates.

Fragrance is an incredibly intimate thing. It can evoke very specific thoughts or memories and is a little different for each person who wears it. I also think it's the most accessible luxury.

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

To feel free like a bird, some things on our minds must be left in the past.

I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.

Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.

You could say I'm a bit of a nomad.

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.