Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

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

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

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

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

I love women with attitude.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

Single life is so overrated.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

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.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

I think and that is all that I am.

I can’t disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses – the wheelchair gives me away.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.