“The most empowering thing you can do though is to create innovative ways to bring in livable wages. That begins with a debt free lifestyle.”

“All those other girls are cake...I'm Crme brle...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.”

“I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction walland Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades.”

“You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturns spinning pulsars”

“Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.”

“When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.”

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.”

“Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries.”

“I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.”

“Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid of free will, it would relegate humankind to living by instinct. A person who lives by instinct m...”

“Youll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road ...”