Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.

I’m afraid to fail again.

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

I never expected to be anybody important.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

Be not a slave of words.

My whole life is a theater piece.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Travel teaches toleration.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I let the American people down.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.