If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Change alone is unchanging.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I’m tender on the inside.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

I’m not a bad person.

I think we need more idiot control.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.