Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

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.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

Some people would like me to be round again.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

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.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

Only the shallow know themselves.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.