I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

The only shame is to have none.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

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.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

I’m not the most patient of people.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

How can we help President Obama?

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.

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

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

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.

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.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.