In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

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.

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

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

I think I have always had a little humor.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

I always wanted a family.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

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.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.