Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Success has always been a great liar.

Observe all men, thyself most.

I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

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.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.