Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

Without triers there would never be any successors

The biggest twist in fiction might be a story ending exactly how you thought it would.

Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.

Technique plays a part - you have to know how to play.

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist.

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.