I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

What one has to do usually can be done.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

The only shame is to have none.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

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

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

No man is hurt but by himself.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

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.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.