Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

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 not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

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.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

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.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

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.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

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.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I love being busy.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

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.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

I never expected to be anybody important.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

God’s desire is that we excel.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

I hate to be smart.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.