I’m a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.
Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?
One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I’m in a good mood – don’t meet me in a bad mood.
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
God has entrusted me with myself.
A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.
I don’t have to choose between high fashion or streetwear. My brand reminds me that it doesn’t have to fit in a box. It can just be in a gray area.
One of things I like about looking at pictures when you’re young and also meeting back with old friends you haven’t seen in a long time is, for me, it’s a glimpse of who I was.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Success, to me, is just doing things that I’m really proud of.
Reflecting on where I came from helps me to appreciate and balance what I have now.
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
It’s easy to impress me. I don’t need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I’m happy. I’m satisfied. I’m content.
I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.
I’m like a snake sleeping on a rock. I won’t bother you unless you poke a stick at me.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
You gotta catch the sauce. Move with me… I’m dripping sauce.
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.
Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that’ll be me.
Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I’m living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you’re a woman.
God made me the way I am, and I accept myself. I am who I am, and I’m proud of myself.
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Show me a good and gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure.
I am blessed with a funny gene that makes me enjoy life.
Allah says in the Qur’an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It’s who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque – and I’m a basketball player with money and prestige – if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He’s better than me. It’s about knowledge.
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
I wish they would only take me as I am.
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for the law is too slow. I’ll ruin you.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.
To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.
For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‘Justice to all. Appeasement to none.’ This is our secularism.
Confidence is not, ‘They will like me’. Confidence instead is, ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t’.
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Don’t change on me. Don’t extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
I would say don’t take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We’re very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you, ‘Liquidize your assets; buy Powerball tickets – it works!’
I am someone who can’t hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don’t carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that’s the only way to be happy and peaceful.
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.
My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’
I’m just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they’re around me.
My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
It’s not me trying to act or pose in a certain way. It’s a lifestyle – like a suaveness or a swag, per se.
I’m just doing me, and to me, that’s what got me this far.
My father told me ‘Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.’
As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.
