“We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.”

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to “upgrade my mind.” That’s just what I wanted to do my whole life.

There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don’t make the same ones. We don’t want to duplicate them.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap – people shouldn’t read that stuff.

There’s nothing to fear but fear itself. It’s an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it’s not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon, smart too late.

I’m the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It’s all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

There’s no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don’t want to close the door on it either.

I’m gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me…your great grandkids will say “wow, wasn’t that a bizarre individual?”

In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you’re not a friend to yourself, there’s no way you’re gonna have any friends.

I try my best to learn from other people’s mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

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 don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did…That’s my biggest regret.

Education is free. Freedoom of education shall be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under the supreme control of the state.

Don’t let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

She controls the music when she rides with me.

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

Be proud to be out of your mind and out of control.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.