I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

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.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

I can handle pain.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

I’m not a bad person.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

For me, education was power.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

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

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

My life is my message.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.