Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.

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

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

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

If God is for us, who can be against us?

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

We were created to be deliverers to the people

One of life's contradictions: how human beings were at once entirely resilient and impossibly fragile. One decision could stay with you forever, and yet you could live through almost anything.

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

The twelve months... Snowy, Flowy, Blowy, Showery, Flowery, Bowery, Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy, Breeze, Sneezy, Freezy.

Routine is part of coping.

There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.