Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

My music is a luxury.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

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.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

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.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

I’m not a nerd, obviously. Do I look like one? I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

Children always turn to the light.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

I’m very free-spirited.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

I’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.