I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

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.

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

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

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

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

What you are comes to you.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

We become what we repeatedly do.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Only the insecure strive for security.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

A woman has the age she deserves.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

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

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

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?

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.