Better is the enemy of good.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

At one point, I didn’t care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

I’ve learned never to say never.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

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

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

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.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

A man’s character is his fate.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.