I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

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

My whole life is a theater piece.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

You can be happy where you are.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Mine is better than ours.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

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

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

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.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

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.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Dream and you shall become.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.