Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Bad men are full of repentance.

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

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

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

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

If you deserve it, go get it.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.