Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

I know that the arts are important. I’m not denying that, but I can’t associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: ‚What is the scientific status of the claims?‘ ‚What social or ideological needs do they serve?‘

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Be as you wish to seem.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

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.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

When you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

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

I don’t do research. I never have.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

Information is not knowledge.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.