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

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

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?

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

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

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

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

I’m not a natural born performer.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.