We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I think, therefore I'll think.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

Be first: achieve every dream.

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

Obviously, [Wham!] made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I had no idea I would be a celebrity.

There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.

New York is who I am.

What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.

When you understand the fear then you can begin to move past it. So when I hear the people say it's innate, you can't learn it, I just want to hit them in the head.

My message is, if you need help, ask for it.