I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

It's not what you have at the end of life, it's what you leave behind that matters.

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.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

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