There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

The Nation of Islam’s main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep trying to force ourselves into white restaurants and schools when white people didn’t want us? Why not clean up our own neighborhoods and schools instead of trying to move out of them and into white people’s neighborhoods?

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

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.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Little things affect little minds.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

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

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

I came up from a difficult background.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

I’m not a god – I do bad things.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.