Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

Libraries raised me.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

The self is hateful.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

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.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

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

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.