I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Music is something no one can control.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Be not a slave of words.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

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

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

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.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

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.

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I’ve done for 25 years. I don’t need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

It was that famous joke: What’s the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? ‚Hey, I wrote a song.‘

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

I’ve noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it’s various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.