Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

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.

I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

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

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

The older you get, the better you get.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o’clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

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

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

I love being busy.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

I can express myself.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

You have to be someone.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.