How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

By indignities men come to dignities.

Being humble matters.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

A lot of people ask me, ‚How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?‘ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

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

I’m about being the best.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I give opinions, not advice.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.