Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

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

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

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.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

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.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

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.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

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.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

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.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

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

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The older you get, the better you get.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

The people in my songs are all me.