I’m not a natural born performer.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Character is power.

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Small aim is a crime.

You either make dust or eat dust.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

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.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.