There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

Success has always been a great liar.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

What I love best in life is new starts.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

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

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Only the insecure strive for security.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

Libraries raised me.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

A man’s character is his fate.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.