When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don’t do things to shock people. I’m not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don’t know how long I’m going to be on this planet. So while I’m here, I might as well make the most of it.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

I want the world to see my body.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

You have to be someone.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

I’m not a bad person.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

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

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

We all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.