Hitch your wagon to a star.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

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.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

Everybody has a purpose.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

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

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

You can be passionate about anything.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Character is power.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Where love is, there God is also.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I have wasted my hours.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Today, I’d like to talk to Bob Marley. I’d just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don’t know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from ‚Redemption Song‘ to ‚Is This Love?‘ and ‚I Shot the Sheriff.‘

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.