Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

Little things affect little minds.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

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

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

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

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I have goals.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

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

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.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

They know enough who know how to learn.