The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

I love diversity.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

A true man hates no one.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

What one fool can understand, another can.

Science is nothing but perception.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

NBC had a show called ‚The Toughest Bouncer in America‘ that I did. But I told them I didn’t like that term, ‚bouncer.‘ To me, it’s offensive. A bouncer likes to get physical, likes to put his hands on people.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

In most communities it is illegal to cry ‚fire‘ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

I’m tender on the inside.

Game’s always been open arms with me.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Each day provides its own gifts.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.