To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

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

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

We become what we repeatedly do.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

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.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

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 not intimidated by how people perceive me.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.