“Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.”

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Truth allows no choice.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.

Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

My life is a creative act–like a painting, or a concerto.

I am a canvas, that I design with colors of identity to madness filled masterpiece of worthiness.

Every artists wants to be applauded

I want to encourage the artists that haven’t made it that social media is the truth. I made it from Instagram to having a most-added song to radio.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. It sparked the writing bug and the very overactive imagination. Because I’ve had a lot of time by myself and a lot of time isolated from regular culture, I created my own.

It used to take me a really long time, and I used to not be able to write in the studio because I felt there was a lot of pressure to be perfect. The more I’m collaborating with other artists, the more I realize being in the studio is about catching a vibe.