Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

I’m selfish.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

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

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I still think I am the greatest.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

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

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

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.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I have good days and bad days.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.