How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

I don't care about how many times somebody recognizes my face.

If I stay in here until I am 100 years olds, I will still be a man.

As far as anybody in the rap game ever tryin' to assassinate my character, that's impossible. You talkin' about a man who has always walked the walk and talked the talk.

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

I can only spend $140 a month in here. I'm saving, like, $10,000 a day.

They been callin up here, asking when I am gonna get out. When I hit bricks, it all belongs to me.

I like Biggie. Like 'Pac, he was one of the best rappers in the business. Why would I try to do something to him?

People don't know how hard it is to have your own business.

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

You got good and bad people everywhere.

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.

If you always been my enemy, it's still that way.

The best revenge in the world is success.

No person ever gave me nothing but God.

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.

I never seen no shootin'. I only know what I heard and what I read. I had no involvement.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

I made up my mind that I wanted everything, and nothing would stop me.

To go from hating the way I looked to being a 'Cosmo' centerfold is a profound honor.

I'm the type of person, I cannot waste time.

Its no good crying over spilt milk because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

We are talking about predictable recurring flooding.

A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.

Good parenting is not influenced by sexual orientation. It is influenced most by a parent’s ability to create a loving and nurturing home. This ability has nothing to do with whether the parent is gay or straight.

As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.

When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.

I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.

There's nothing heavier than the weight of sin in our lives. It's crushing. What a luxury to know the burden of it can be lifted off our shoulders if we repent and give it to God.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

I want to support John Boehner in any way that I can, but we need to be pragmatic.

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

Grace saves us from life without Godeven more it empowers us for life with God.

Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

The Devil take the hindmost