Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

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

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

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.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Where love is, there God is also.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

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.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

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

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.