If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.
The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.
Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.
I've struggled with money when I could have had a little more if I'd just taken the damn job.
I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I'm needed by someone. As long as you have that, you're healthy.
I never thought of myself as a movie star. I'm just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top -- and never fell off.