Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

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.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Power is competence.

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

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

The more you know the less you need to say.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

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

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

The chimpanzee study was – well, it’s still going on, and I think it’s taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we’re simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

Bad men are full of repentance.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.