The sun is gone, but I have a light.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‚Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.‘

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I’m just like, ‚Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do‘.

Where there is love there is life.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

I dwell in possibility.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

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.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

I’m just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I’m inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.