Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

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 want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

You can’t do something forever.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

I’m totally myself.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

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

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

I think and that is all that I am.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.