He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

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

Little things affect little minds.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince – for the vocals, anyway.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

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

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

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 are no second acts in American lives.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

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

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

The doer alone learneth.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.