We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

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.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

The way to know life is to love many things.

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

You don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.