Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I’m confidently cocky, you might say.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

I can be a cruel person.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

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.

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.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

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

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

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

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.