Travel teaches toleration.

Always do whatever’s next.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

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

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

My mother did not like children.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

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

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

Men must know their limitations.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

There are no second acts in American lives.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

We boil at different degrees.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.