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

None but ourselves can free our minds.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

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

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

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.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

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

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

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

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

My life is mine to remember.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.