We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

I’m so wrapped up in my work that it’s often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

We spend so much time sublimatin‘, thinkin‘ about, ‚What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?‘

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

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.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

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

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

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

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

Never mistake motion for action.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

I hate to be smart.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

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

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.