Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I just want to be myself.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

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.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

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

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

I’m afraid to fail again.

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

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

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

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

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.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

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

Never get out of bed before noon.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.