I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

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?‘

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

God has entrusted me with myself.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

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

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

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

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

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

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.