Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.

I started as a GED instructor, I created my own GED program, and I realized that a lot of young people that don’t do well academically. It’s not that they don’t have the competency to do it or the skill set to do it; it’s just that they weren’t motivated to learn. They weren’t interested in school, so I started just talking to students and just really going in on them like, “Yo, this is life or death.”

There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.

I can't go back and change the hands of time but what I can do is create a new legacy.

This is your year to accomplish what you've never accomplished before.

There's somebody else just like you trying to do it! But you gotta do it faster than they do it!

As long as you're being a copycat, you will never be the best copycat.