Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

We all have done something unethical.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

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

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Big results require big ambitions.

You fail only if you stop writing.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

Never confuse motion with action.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

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.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.