Get busy living, or get busy dying.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

People want to feel hopeful.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

There is spontaneity to my work.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

My life has been very full.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

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

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.