“I don’t ever make moves under pressure.”

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

Luck is just bein’ prepared at all times, so when the door opens you’re ready.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

A speaker of truth has no friends.

We’re not the cause, we’re the effect.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

I’m focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I’ve either read or I plan on getting to.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

All the smart money got they bets on me and all the real niggas wish the best for me.

I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.

In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today’s decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.

The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn’t make a decision.

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they.

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position.

I can use my awareness of my fear as a tool to help me make decisions that are truly in line with my values and purpose.