Kanye West

People say, Kanye he’s so crazy, he’s this, he’s that. People call you crazy so much you start to believe it yourself.

I went to college on an art scholarship at the American Academy of Art, but the education comes from being passionate about objects, spaces, colors and the way they affect your senses.

We don’t want to be influenced, just informed.

I’m going to Adidas, ‘Adidas, I know you’ve never made a shoe under $50 but we have to make a shoe that costs $30 and it’s going to be coolest shoe of all.’

I love Obama. I’m sure we’ll hang out, go to Richard Branson’s island. It’ll be cool.

I don’t want to put too many boxes on it because the work speaks louder than words.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else… you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

You sold me a dream and it shattered. I didn’t know how to put it back together again. So instead, I’m lovingly gluing those fragments anew with seams of gold, creating a vibrant new dream, rendering the broken strong and more than ever, breathtakingly beautiful.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Watch what you say, and whatever you say, practice it.