If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

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

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

You can only have one aim per debate.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

See, winners embrace hard work.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.