Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

We were poor, but we smiled.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

The people in my songs are all me.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Only the insecure strive for security.

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.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

I don’t have many sad days.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.