With acting, you have to take it seriously because the other actors are putting in a lot of effort - and if you say, 'I'm just bullshitting here', it's like dissing 'em.

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape

If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

The truth is, everybody I've ever met who's successful is a workaholic.

Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.

Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

Something primal was awake within her, a violent will to live as old as the universe itself.

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

Through a forest of challenges, thought moves and squirms, resisting beguilements; if it endures, it emerges pure.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer

It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.

The only difference between a RICH person and a POOR person is how they use their time.

Keep starting until you finish.