Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

There’s been people who’ve rapped and produced – like Kanye – but I don’t feel like on the rapping side there’s ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I’m on form, I can sell anything.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I’m trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, ‚I’m different. I’m not just a comedian.‘ I’m trying to become a rock star.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Aside from singing, I’m also a dancer. I’ve been dancing since I was 8.

Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

I can dance to just about anything.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

Genius, when young, is divine.

I don’t need you to be funny. I don’t want to be entertained.