My life is my message.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it’s not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they’re totally one and the same. I’m always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

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

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.