Things do not change; we change.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

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

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

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

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

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

I’m not a bad person.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

I believe time wounds all heels.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

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

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.