I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

I want people to draw strength from me.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

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

Freedom without limits is just a word.

I’m constantly thinking.

I’m not very articulate.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I’m only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else’s life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there’s no point in me blaming you for what’s wrong in my life.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.