A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

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

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

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.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

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

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.