I believe time wounds all heels.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

I was raised to be independent.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

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

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

I can resist everything except temptation.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

In married life three is company and two none.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

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.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

Time discovers truth.

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

We cannot learn men from books.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.