The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

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.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

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?

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Life is a song to me.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.