Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

I think that I’m perfect.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

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.

These are all personal crises, I’m sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It’s as simple as that.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

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

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

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

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

I let the American people down.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

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.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

O, had I but followed the arts!

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

The reward of suffering is experience.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

The self is hateful.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

My reputation grows with every failure.

I kinda live where I find myself.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.