I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

Forget the past.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

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

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

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.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

You should never give up your inner self.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

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.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

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

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

Mandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

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.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.