I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

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

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

I only change things where I know about a situation. I’d never change just for change.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

We cannot learn men from books.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I give opinions, not advice.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

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.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

I grew up in a funny way.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.