Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Once you’ve changed who you are or who you’ve portrayed in your music, the fans, they’ll catch it… Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

Ultimately, I’m not doing that much. I’m only doing what a human being who feels wants to do – in my way, without stepping out of my flow, while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.