Life is a matter of really tough choices.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Never complain and never explain.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Life is a song to me.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

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?

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

If you judge, investigate.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

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.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.