Get mad, then get over it.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Never take anything for granted.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

What is true belongs to me!

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

My mother did not like children.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

As you think, so shall you become.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

I’m totally myself.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

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

You have to be someone.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Travel teaches toleration.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

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 learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

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

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

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.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.