Travel teaches toleration.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

We are wiser than we know.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

I got my own back.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

I hate to be smart.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

I think that I’m perfect.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!