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.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

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

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

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 periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

The buck stops here!

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

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.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.