Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

I kinda live where I find myself.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

As you think, so shall you become.

Life well spent is long.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

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.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

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

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!