I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the ‚Boston Phoenix,‘ and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that’s where I first saw ‚deadpan.‘

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.