To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

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

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

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

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

I think I’ve got wiser.