Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

I think that I’m perfect.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

You should never give up your inner self.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

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

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

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

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

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.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

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.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.