With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

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.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

It is always your next move.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

I never hold a grudge.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

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

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

I can do whatever I want.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.