I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

Single life is so overrated.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

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.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

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

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

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

My whole life is a theater piece.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

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

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

We cannot learn men from books.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

Love is a serious mental disease.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?