The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

I got my own back.

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

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

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

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

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

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

I’m not perfect.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

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

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Love is a state of being.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

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

The only shame is to have none.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

A person who is truly authentic doesn’t need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him – or herself.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?