Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

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.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

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

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

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?

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.