Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

Choose people who lift you up.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

I always wanted a family.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

The reward of suffering is experience.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

I’m not perfect.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

Only the shallow know themselves.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.