Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.
The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.
While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against their colonial consequences. Islamic, Indian, or African civilizations were invented contrapuntally by Orientalism. . . in order to match, balance and thus authenticate 'Western Civilization'.
I'm 21 years old and I think that I've got a lot of perspective in life.