You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

You can’t go backward in life.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

Success has always been a great liar.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women… no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

All you need is love.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

You have to be someone.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.