Be not a slave of words.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

I write all of my own speeches.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

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.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I was raised to be independent.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.