My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I’m selfish.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

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.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

My life is mine to remember.

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

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

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

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

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.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

For me, education was power.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.