I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

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

I think everyone’s inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, ‚Well, if everyone likes it it can’t be that good.‘ Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

It is important to remember yourself.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Art is the proper task of life.

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

Vanity is but the surface.

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.