Strictly excel in what is excellence with grace

I got mouths to feed, Unnecessary beef is more cows to breed.

When I was trekking across Brooklyn, looking for MC battles - and there were plenty of them - I never dreamed I'd be at this podium.

I'm on a Mission, that niggaz say is Impossible, But when I swing my swords they all choppable, I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper, Child educator, plus head amputator.

Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

Too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long. Make it brief son: half short, twice strong!

I was always taught my do's and don'ts: For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't.

Energy is felt once the cards are dealt With the impact of roundhouse kicks from black belts that attack the microphone like cyclones or typhoons I represent from midnight to high noon.

I won't hesitate to detonate, I'm short fused.

Where I come from, gettin visual is habitual...

So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front, Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pulling stunts!

That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life, and life hath immortality

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

We actually grew closer as friends years later when we started doing personal appearances together. I stayed in touch with Andy [Griffith] and Don [Knotts] until they passed away.

I was already set for life when I met her.

The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson..... have taught man to look within himself to find God.

What we do right now, today, matters.

Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.

Music is magic. Music does s**t that money could never do. Music unites nations and stops wars.

Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.