As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God’s word.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

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.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

I think that I’m perfect.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

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.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Art is the proper task of life.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.