Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

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.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

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.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

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

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

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 don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.