Where the mind goes, the man follows.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I’m just like, ‚Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do‘.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.