Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

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

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

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

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.