I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

All of our problems start in our minds.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

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

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Only the insecure strive for security.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

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

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I am who I am today because of my mother.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.