I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

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.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

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.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

I think and that is all that I am.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

I hate to be smart.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Libraries raised me.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman’s body is very beautiful.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Things do not change; we change.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

Some guys look better as they get older.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I think that I’m perfect.

I’m not perfect.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

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

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

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

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Some people would like me to be round again.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

Energy begets energy.