Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

I’m not perfect.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

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

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

I like pushing boundaries.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

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

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

I don’t think I get angry.