I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

My life is my message.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

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

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

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

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

To innovate is not to reform.

Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

I’m not a regrets-type person.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I came up from a difficult background.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

Nothing recedes like progress.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.