Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.

MySpace is an addiction.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

The post of honour is a private station.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Rap was my drug.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.

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 don’t kiss nobody’s butt.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

I’ve always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

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

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

I think that I’m perfect.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

I’m confident with my ability.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‚Of course they like it. They should like it.‘

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

This dark diction has become America’s addiction.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.