Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

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.

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

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

I teach children to be winners.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

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.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

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.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.