There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

My mother did not like children.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

The people in my songs are all me.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

No one but a fool is always right.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

Character is power.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

Choose people who lift you up.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.