I’m totally myself.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

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

Don’t feel sorry for me.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Friends accept you the way you are.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

Men must know their limitations.

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

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.