Take your diamonds and throw em up like you're bulimic. Yeah, the beat cold, but the flow is anemic.

Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

This is my life homie, you decide yours

Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.

We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.

If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

We have states. And we have cities. And we have counties. And we have the private sector. And - and so the country still works even when Washington's dysfunctional.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.

What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

My library card. Every hurdle I've faced, I have researched my way over at a library. I'm grateful for that part of the American spirit that believes every citizen should have access to books.