My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

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?

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

Without leaps of the imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning

Butterflies, butterfliesThey were meant to flyYou and i, you and iWe were colours in the sky

We are not the ones who will achieve success and put this world to shame, but God will do thisthrough us.

But vilifying those we love always detaches us from them a little. We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

A star can win any game; a team can win every game.

Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.

Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.

For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.