I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

I can handle pain.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

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

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think 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.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

‚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.

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

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.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.