“Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That’s important.”

The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.

Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares.

We’re all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.

I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.

You need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.

I’m scared every time I go into the ring, but it’s how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, ‘Let’s go.’

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

You have to compete in life because if you don’t have no competition – no competition, no spirit, you know, you’ll fall under the slightest struggle.

Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.

Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence, Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.

Not to be egotistical, but I don’t think there is a man on this planet who can beat me.

People say ‘Poor guy.’ That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. ‘Poor guy,’ like I’m some victim. There’s nothing poor about me.

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to “upgrade my mind.” That’s just what I wanted to do my whole life.

There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don’t make the same ones. We don’t want to duplicate them.

The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.

I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.

On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.

Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.

Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good. The new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.