I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

My reputation grows with every failure.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

There are no second acts in American lives.

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

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

Observe all men, thyself most.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Choose people who lift you up.

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

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I’m tender on the inside.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

I am in my own head most of the time.

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

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

Be content to seem what you really are.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘