Often things are as bad as they seem.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10)

He may only get to keep that which he is willing to let go of.

Adversity refined us like gold.

It's about finding what's next. I'm hesitant to let people know what producers I'm f---ing with, what I'm rapping about. I'd rather drop that winning hand out of nowhere.

The grand instructor, time.

I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of mistakes.

Dead we become the lumber of the world.

But you know, we have a very normal family. We've had our ups and downs. You know, we've had our issues, but we've had great cause for celebration.

Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.