An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Being humble matters.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

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

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

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

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

If you would judge, understand.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.