A person who is truly authentic doesn’t need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him – or herself.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

I think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

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

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

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

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

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

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

God has entrusted me with myself.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

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.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them – they are individual and stylish.

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

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

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.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.