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

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

The law is reason, free from passion.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Never mistake motion for action.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

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

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

I’m not perfect.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.