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

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

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

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

You should never give up your inner self.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

No one but a fool is always right.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

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.‘

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

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

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

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.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

I let the American people down.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Observe all men, thyself most.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.