One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people-I categorize them as life's losers-who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

I think Mick [Jagger] got jealous. I was always very respectful about Mick and the Stones but he said a lot of tarty things about the Beatles, which I am hurt by. I'd like to just list what we did and what the Stones did two months after on every f***king album... he imitates us.

In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you.

Suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.