Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn’t. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it’s about you and what you want to be. You’re not being treated like a clothes hanger.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

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

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.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

You should never give up your inner self.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I’ve taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you’re in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it’s on track, that it’s going in.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I’ve been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don’t need to write a book for adults.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

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

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

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.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

I don’t regret anything.