One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

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.

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

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Wherever I go meeting the public… spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

For me, ‚risky‘ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.