Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

You can’t do something forever.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

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 try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

I kinda live where I find myself.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

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.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

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

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

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.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

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

We all have done something unethical.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.