I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

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

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

I’m no genius.

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

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Confine yourself to the present.

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.

I am happy and I’m single.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

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

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

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

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

My mother did not like children.

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.

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.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!