I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

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.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

The people in my songs are all me.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

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.

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

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

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

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

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

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

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

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Life well spent is long.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.