Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Silence is a source of great strength.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

‚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.‘

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

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

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

My fat never made me less money.

Who, being loved, is poor?

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

I want to negotiate what I’m worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, ‚This is what I’m owed now. Pay me.‘ And then we can talk.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.