Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

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.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

For me, ‚risky‘ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

A woman has the age she deserves.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

I’m nobody, who are you?

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.