I’m not the most patient of people.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

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

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

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

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Better is the enemy of good.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Find people who will make you better.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

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

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

I’m not very articulate.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

I’m selfish.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.