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.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

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

Travel teaches toleration.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

I can handle pain.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

God has entrusted me with myself.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

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

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

My whole life is a theater piece.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

He who angers you conquers you.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

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.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I’ve done for 25 years. I don’t need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.