I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it’s like therapy for me.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Forgotten is forgiven.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer’s block… Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

Hatred is self-punishment.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.