There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, because it's the hot thing to do.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid.

Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

If you reflect on death, you find the vanity of life.

No more, no less. I'm an idiot. I really need to let this crush go.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament to how her grandmother made love to hurricane and calmed the storm.

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.