"I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more."

"I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things."

"Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle."

"God is not going to send someone to hell for my mistakes. So God and I have to deal with my own salvation."

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face."

"Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled."

"It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading."

"I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either."

"My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious."

"As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want."

"I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself."

"A man who was friendly with everyone was an enemy to himself."

"Everybody thinks this is a tough man’s sport. This is not a tough man’s sport. This is a thinking man’s sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport."

"Everyone that you fight is not your enemy and everyone who helps you is not your friend."

"Man is not mean to be humble, he's meant to be humbled."

"In America, we’re really good at blowing things up but not so good in knowing where the pieces will land."

"Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth"

"Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine."

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security. On the other hand, the more we are forced to admit that we actually live in the real world, the more we feel ignorant, uncertain, and insecure about everything.

What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call the here and now. You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that the wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe.

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.

The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the I out of the experience... Sanity, wholeness and integration lie in the realisation that we are not divided, that man and his present experience are one, and that no separate I or mind can be found .... [Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.

If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.