I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

What you are comes to you.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

If you deserve it, go get it.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

I just want to be myself.

I kinda live where I find myself.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Aim for the highest.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

I’m not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.