“Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.”

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.

Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

The simplest questions are the most profound.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Civilization… wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?

Don’t be dismayed by good-byes.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t.

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can’t.

I’m going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.

There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.

What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story’s voice makes everything its own.