I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

My reputation grows with every failure.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

If the critics are right that I’ve made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

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

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

I think and that is all that I am.

The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Solitude is independence.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

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

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

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.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

If you judge, investigate.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.