As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

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

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Lost time is never found again.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

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.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

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

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.