I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

I’m not into albums that are meant to sound perfect.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

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

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

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

Little things affect little minds.

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

Until it’s on the radio or online, it’s not real. With U2, our album isn’t finished until it’s in the stores.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

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.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

I’m afraid to fail again.

I’ve been lucky – all the ads I’ve got, I’ve got to be myself. I haven’t had to act too much or tried too hard to be someone I’m not. I think that’s why people sort of like them. Even the Fastrack ads I did with Genelia.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

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.

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

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.