The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

Don't think about what can happen in a month. Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be!

Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.

Make a commitment to your self that today, success is your only options! No matter the obstacles, no matter the sacrifice! you have decided you won't be denied, you won't be defeated!

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you'll be successful.

Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut.

It's not about where you come from, it's about heart.

You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.

Success does not require you to look out the window, It only requires that you look in the mirror

Sometimes it ain’t about being the most talented. Sometimes it ain’t about being the smartest. Sometimes it’s not even about working the hardest. Sometimes it’s about consistency! Consistency!

If you can see everything in all directions, there is no such thing as up or down, left or right.

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents.

Texting has become my favorite way to communicate. I feel like many of my relationships are based in this, because in a sense it feels the closest to actual conversation that isn't the phone.

You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

People are either charming or tedious.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

There's nothing like a hardship song to set my toes a-tappin.

So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.