I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

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.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

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.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

I look after people.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

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.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.