“Baby steps count, as long as you are going forward. You add them all up, and one day you look back and you’ll be surprised at where you might get to.”

The balance in your life is more important than the balance in your checking account.

We all understand genetics. You get your eyes from your dad, your mom’s nose, there’s nothing you can do about that. But your spiritual genetics you can choose, pick, embrace and commit to. That’s what I did.

People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you you can’t do it. You want something, go get it.

Well, I really don’t want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I’m really passionate about painting.

One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It’s the basics. Blocking and tackling.

Find something that you love. Something that gets you so excited you can’t wait to get out of bed in the morning. Forget about money. Be happy.

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.

The sun cannot hide all the shadows of the clouds just as the moon cannot stop the sea tides, But a hidden star still smiling at the dark magic of the night.

There’s no reason to regret anything. Regret is a waste.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.

Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

I’ve been inspired by a shitload of people in my life so if there’s ever anybody that I can inspire, to me that’s a huge gift. To be able to turn that back around.