Men must know their limitations.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

We boil at different degrees.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

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

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Faith never makes a confession.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

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.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.