We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

Music is always a commentary on society.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class. I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.

America is just downright mean.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

I live in a crazy time.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

I think that I’m perfect.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.