I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

I most resemble Benjamin Button. I evolve. I attach myself to the heartbeat of whatever is going on at that particular time, or I just chart a new path.

The great thing about baseball is that anyone can be a hero on any given day

The most important thing is to listen, not to respond

When you repeat a new pattern often, you literally change the neural pathways in your brain. This shift helps true change settle in.

Thank you, Universe, for guiding me on this path to becoming new. I honor this vision of how I want to feel. I am willing to receive guidance now.

They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Beat me ’til I’m numb Tell the devil I said “hey” when you get back to where you’re from

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

Sex appeal is something that you feel deep down inside. It’s suggested rather than shown. I’m not as well-stacked as Sophia Loren or Gina Lollobrigida, but there is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

Constant repetition is the path to progression.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hand

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can’t have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

The love of money is either the rapacity of avarice, which can never be satisfied, or the sublime enthusiasm of virtue

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny

Every start upon an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to be successful

The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never

Be sensitive to each moment, regard it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive

If you want to succeed, strike out on new paths. Don’t travel the worn paths of accepted success.