Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

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

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

What is true belongs to me!

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

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?

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Single life is so overrated.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

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

I think and that is all that I am.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

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

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.