We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Music is in my DNA!

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

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

I want to be an artist, not… a celluloid aphrodisiac.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

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.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.