I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I don’t listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It’s all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You’d have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music – I couldn’t sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

By indignities men come to dignities.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don’t think it’s possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.