I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

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.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

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

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Travel teaches toleration.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

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.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

If I’m inspired to make a certain kind of song, I’m going to make that kind of song, no matter if it’s what they know me as or think I am.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

A person who is truly authentic doesn’t need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him – or herself.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Humble people ask for help.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

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.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

We become what we repeatedly do.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

I don’t see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear ‚pop,‘ you’re like, ‚Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,‘ and I feel like, ‚Uh-uh. That’s not me.‘

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny.

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

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

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