Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

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

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

My reputation grows with every failure.

I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

‚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.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

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

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

I’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

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

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

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

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

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

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 am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Be not a slave of words.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

I think I have always had a little humor.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

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.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.