The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Yes, I play computer games. I think you've got to embrace the latest technology. For someone to dismiss games as not important would be the same as saying the Internet is not important.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.

My father told me, never have partners.

Money can't buy happiness.

I look at where I'm at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing - continue to rock it - because obviously, God wants you here.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.

We're in the last days, man - I truly, in my heart, believe that. It's written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it's about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

I used to consider the listener. But now I'm in a space where, if I'm not inspired, I can't really do the music. I can't feel it.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.