I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

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 still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

Success has always been a great liar.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

The doer alone learneth.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

God created man, but I could do better.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

What is true belongs to me!

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

I’m not a bad person.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

Sleep is the best meditation.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

I do believe in self-help.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

All of our problems start in our minds.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.