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.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

You have to be someone.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

Humble people ask for help.

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

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

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

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

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

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

Observe all men, thyself most.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

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

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

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