“For the sun to shine, you gotta have some rain. You need the damn rain.”

“I have to hurt other people in order to get what I want, I dont have a choice but to. In life, you gotta do the right things for the wrong reasons. Or the wrong things for the right reasons.”

“I'd rather try and fail than quit and not do shit.”

“In life, you got two objectives. Make money and make a change.”

“All my life I wanted to be accepted.”

“The pen is my true salvation. God is not.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”

“The road to success is always under construction”

“A true philosopher must never give up.”

“...these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort to ignore the all-engrossing threat of bombs and rockets.”

“Never, never, never give in!”