It is always your next move.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

I do believe in self-help.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

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.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Bring them on.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.