I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

I got my own back.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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 built a label at the same time I built a career.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Be as you wish to seem.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.