The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung out with. I was pretty good at anything I tried to do, so they would call me a young wiz.

Worrying is stupid. It's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.

Cry as much as you want to, but make sure when you're finished, you never cry for the same reason again

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy.

Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.

I've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

Since I was younger I've been making the best out of nothing.

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.

No matter what you accumulate from outside, or what your mind forms inside, it all comes down to the choice you make out of everything that is stored in your mind.

You can understand why I'm a believer. I have seen miracles.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time.

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

I love Australian people.

I haven't sought self-forgiveness because I feel I was preyed upon and not responsible for the many bad things that happened to me.

I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.

Life on our planet is defined by the health of our ocean.

Advance our standards, set upon our foes; Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!