In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?

Money does not change people, people change.

I’m nobody, who are you?

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

It is important to remember yourself.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

I owe my solitude to other people.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

My friends, there are no friends.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

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

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

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

I’m not a natural born performer.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.