Little by little, not by making big promises, I need to be calmer, read more, spend more time with my loved ones, and be more mindful about nature and environment.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Peace begins with a smile.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

I’ve been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I’ve learned to resist that.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

I’m no genius.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

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.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

I’m not a natural born performer.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

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.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

I’m totally myself.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.