I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

We boil at different degrees.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I’m so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

We are what we believe we are.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

I’m not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.