I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

Never complain and never explain.

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

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Being humble matters.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

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.

Life well spent is long.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

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

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

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

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

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.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.