I want people to draw strength from me.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.

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.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North – that’s our highway – there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I’d be like, that’s what my house is going to look like when I get older. I’m going to start making my house look like this.

You can’t go backward in life.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

I used to – my earliest memory of waking up with a melody in my head was, you know, 8, 9, 10. I’ve always heard kind of melodies in my head.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

No man is hurt but by himself.

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

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

Dream and you shall become.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.