I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

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

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

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.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

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

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

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.‘

I think that I’m perfect.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

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.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.