In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

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

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

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.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

Money does not change people, people change.

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

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

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

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.