I think that I’m perfect.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

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

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.