The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

All of our problems start in our minds.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

Becoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

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.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Success has always been a great liar.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

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

You can’t do something forever.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

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

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Everybody has a purpose.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.