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

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

What we think, we become.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

When a family film is done well, there’s a character that every member of the audience can relate to. I want to be one of those guys.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

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.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

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

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

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

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.