The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

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.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

I just want to be myself.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

I was becoming post-ideological.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

I can do whatever I want.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.