Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, ‚Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,‘ and that is true. Everything I’ve accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

To make headway, improve your head.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

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

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Courage is grace under pressure.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.