Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

I already am a product.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I’d go back to Virginia.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

I love having an unlimited supply of cocoa butter.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.