Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it’s not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That’s how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t be a musician.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

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

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

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

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 have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

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.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

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

I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

I’m a can-do girl.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

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

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

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.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.