Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

We all have done something unethical.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

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.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

There’s something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that ‚Everlong‘ is on it, or ‚Best of You‘ is on it, and it’s really special.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

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

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

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

Forget the past.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

My life is mine to remember.

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.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

When I was on TV in the ’80s, I wasn’t thinking, ‚There’s a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he’s gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.‘ I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they’re influenced by me – it’s bizarre.

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

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.