I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

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 say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

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.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

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

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

My life is mine to remember.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

As you think, so shall you become.

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

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.