And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

I’m no genius.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

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

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

I always wanted a family.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.