My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Forget the past.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

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

I can handle pain.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

My reputation grows with every failure.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman’s body is very beautiful.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

Every loss of life is terrible.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

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

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

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

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

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.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

Love is a state of being.