"Thinking for yourself is the thing on which everything else depends."

“I wouldn't know what to do on a date. I don't have the time. To make a relationship work, I'd have to give something up, and I'm not so sure I'm willing to do that.”

“I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.”

“The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.”

“I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.”

“And in eternity, faith is the only currency that counts.”

“There is always one more thing you can do to increase your odds of success.”

“And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah....”

Source : Song: What A Wonderful World

“War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.”

Source : "The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade". Book by George Meade, 1913.