It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

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

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

Choose people who lift you up.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

‚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.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

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

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I never expected to be anybody important.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

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.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.