I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

I think and that is all that I am.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

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

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

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

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

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.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

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.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.