However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

I think we need more idiot control.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

I’m not a bad person.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

No man was ever great by imitation.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

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.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Life well spent is long.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.