One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

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

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

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.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

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

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Being humble matters.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Always do whatever’s next.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

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

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

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

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I believe time wounds all heels.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

Nothing will work unless you do.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

The doer alone learneth.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

A woman has the age she deserves.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.