“There is no plan B for passion.”

Do something that you love. Whatever you’re going to do is going to be tough enough. Find something that gets you so excited that the sun can’t come up early enough in the morning because you want to go do your thing.

But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

If you have a dream, you’ve got to protect it.

The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming.

This part of my life, this little part, is called happiness.

I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn’t sing and I couldn’t play ball, so I said to my mother, ‘How am I going to make a million dollars?’ And she said to me, ‘Son, if you believe you can do it, you will.’

It’s okay to fail; it’s not okay to quit.

Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.

The world is your oyster. It’s up to you to find the pearls.

Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don’t just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn’t have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.

If you want something, go get it. Period.

Claim ownership of your dreams.

Ready or not, Tell yourself to jump.

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion.

We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

When you do something you love with passion and perseverance, you are already a success. Even if you never hit the big time, who cares?

Though the heart loves it is the mind that commits such passions to memory.

Believe in your heart that you’re meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.

If you have a strong purpose in life, you don’t have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.