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

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

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

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

I always wanted a family.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Love is a state of being.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

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.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

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.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

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

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.