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.

The self is hateful.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

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

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

I don’t have all the answers.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

I’m not perfect.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

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

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

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

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Like Frank Sinatra, I’m doing it my way.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

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

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

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

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. And if you’re always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.