I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

For me, education was power.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

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.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

We are wiser than we know.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Little things affect little minds.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Aim for the highest.

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.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

I never say I am a guru.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

I want people to draw strength from me.

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

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.