Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

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

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

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

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

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

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

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

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.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

We cannot learn men from books.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

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

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.