To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

Freedom is about a way of thinking. Freedom is about understanding that you can do anything that you want and freedom is about being able to take information and education and make it relevant to your own growth every single day. Freedom is not staying in the box. Freedom is not doing what other people want you to do.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.