When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

I’m afraid to fail again.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

To create something you must be something.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

The doer alone learneth.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

I couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I’m filthy rich!

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

I give opinions, not advice.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let’s get that going.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.