It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

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.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

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.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

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

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

We think too much and feel too little.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.