Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I’m so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

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

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

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

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Men must know their limitations.

I’m selfish.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

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