The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

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

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

No driver is perfect.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Be not a slave of words.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.