Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

I don’t want followers.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

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

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

The best way out is always through.

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

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

I think that I’m perfect.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

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

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?