My future is righteousness.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

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.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Men must know their limitations.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.

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

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

I don’t have all the answers.

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

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.