I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

I never fall in love.

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.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Humble people ask for help.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

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.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

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

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world’s popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

You can be happy where you are.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

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.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

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

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

I woke up one day and thought: ‚I want to write a book about the history of my body.‘ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.