In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

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 want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

I’ve seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.

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.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

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.

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

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

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

The worst crime is faking it.

The people in my songs are all me.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.