We become what we repeatedly do.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

Mine is better than ours.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

I’m not really book-smart.