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.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

I grew up in a funny way.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

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.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

I don’t want followers.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

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.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

Friends are thieves of time.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

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

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

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

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

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.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

My life has been very full.

My friends are my estate.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.