In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

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

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Always do whatever’s next.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

Mine is better than ours.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

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.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

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