Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Well done is better than well said.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

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

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

There is nothing permanent except change.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

To make headway, improve your head.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

The self is hateful.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.