The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to to credit your own opinion.

Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.

I am the dragon, and you call me insane.

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

Wizard's Sixth Rule The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.

If you are a true fan, you're a fan for one of two reasons. You either support what I do or you support me as a person. If you support what I do, the quality of work speaks for itself. If you support me as a person, my personal and political views won't alienate you. If you find a way to be turned off, that means you were never a fan in the first place. You were just riding the wave.

If I'm not in the mood to deal with you, then I just don't deal with you. I look at it like, me not dealing with you could save me a lot of trouble - me forcing myself to deal with you could bring me a lot of trouble. So I just play it by ear.

When you ask me who I look up to and who I can admire for their style right now, I have to choose from people that represent what I represent stylistically.

I dont care what you do fo you respect, but i would die for mine

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.

Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.

You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.

When God blesses you, don't let no devil in hell move you out of your place of blessing!

When you can't do nothing but pray-you've done a whole lot.

When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.

I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now.