I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

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

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

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

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

I think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

I’m totally myself.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

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.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

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

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I never hold a grudge.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

If you’re performing music that is not who you are or where you’re at, it is painful. It’s painful for the performer and for the audience.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Mine is better than ours.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

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

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.