Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.

If you don't eat right as an athlete, you'll get tired and won't be as sharp. It's simple to drink sodas and sports drinks, but water is the most essential drink to put in your body.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Change alone is unchanging.

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.