“You never know how strong you can be until being strong is the only choice you have left.”

No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn’t glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It’s all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.

Follow the rules or follow the fools.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it.

The power is in the people and politics we address.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

Don’t support the phonies, support the real.

Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight.

I’d rather die like a man, than live like a coward.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

Don’t live to fight, fight to live.

I want to grow. I want to be better. You grow. We all grow. We’re made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear.

Watch for phonies, keep your enemies close, watch your homies.

It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

Privatization is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all… it is a mutually profitable business contract between the private company (preferably foreign) and the ruling elite of the Third World.

Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, ‘Gee, if I’d only spent more time at the office.’

When I choose the scripts, all I look forward to is an impressive narration.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece – by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

Vegetarian food is actually good for the body.

I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I’ll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent.

The entire country is rallying behind Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and there is no alternative to Modiji.