Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.

The best revenge is massive success.

You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.

You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.

Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.

To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.

I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don't really reap the whirlwind with this cutting-edge music.

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

When you're a kid going on being an adult, everything radiates so deeply and resonates so passionately, and I like the opportunity to tell those stories.

I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms.

He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

You look for those actors or actresses that fit the personality to populate the film.