My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

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.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

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

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

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

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

God has entrusted me with myself.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

I don’t regret anything.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

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.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

Success is the child of audacity.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.