I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Intimates are predestined.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

We become what we repeatedly do.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

I woke up one day and thought: ‚I want to write a book about the history of my body.‘ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

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.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

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

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.

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!

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

I don’t follow all the 48 laws. Like, I’ve never crushed anyone totally.