To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

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

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

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

There’s certainly a side of me that isn’t completely… sane. Or completely ‚even‘ all the time. We all have our dark sides.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

I’m always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

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

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

We become what we repeatedly do.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

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

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

I just want to be myself.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.