I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

I can be a cruel person.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn’t happen.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

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

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

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

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

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

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

I was becoming post-ideological.

I’ve always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

God has entrusted me with myself.

I never expected to be anybody important.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

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.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.