To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you.

Time is real, we can't rewind it... Out of everybody I met, who told the truth? Time did.

Man, just believe in yourself, be able to dream, and know that there's going to be valleys and peaks. Always stay centered, and know that God is the key, the beginning and end of everything you do.

I love black thighs, you sisters better realize That real hair and real eyes get real guys. So before you makeup your face, you better make up your mind.

Never lookin' back or too far in front of me; the present is a gift and I just wanna be.

Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it.

The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.

I put God first, and strive to do my best by being a loving human being, recognizing that sometimes I make mistakes and bad choices.

One day it'll all make sense.

Not everyone is the same. You can't label a person just because of what they do or what they've done.

I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes

To be inactive while engaged in activity is the real inactivity (non-doership)!

You don't have to sit on top of a mountain to discover what's right for you. You always know in your heart what you need to do.

At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.

Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Stop...Stop what you're doing...Stop what you're doing and breathe.

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.

The reason I don't want anyone to control me is not because I want to be in control. I don't want anyone to control me because I don't want anyone to control anyone.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.