I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

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.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I never hold a grudge.

I’m on the autism spectrum. I don’t usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

Libraries raised me.

I always wanted a family.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything – why can’t I?

I’m a genetic optimist.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

My future is righteousness.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor’s office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don’t think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.