You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

I don’t think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it’s something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems – members come and go – and some of the world’s biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

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.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

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

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

I am a grafter.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.