I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

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.

Men must know their limitations.

I don’t regret anything.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

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.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Genius, when young, is divine.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

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

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

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.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

By indignities men come to dignities.

Money does not change people, people change.