Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

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

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

I am just one human being.

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

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

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.

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

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

I do believe in self-help.

Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

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

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

The people in my songs are all me.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

I kinda live where I find myself.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.