The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Observe all men, thyself most.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

People want to feel hopeful.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

Success is the child of audacity.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

If I can be a leader, I will.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

Passions are the gales of life.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

As you read or listen to God’s Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

Dream and you shall become.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.