The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

God wants to bless us where we are.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

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

I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

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?

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

I’ve been lucky – all the ads I’ve got, I’ve got to be myself. I haven’t had to act too much or tried too hard to be someone I’m not. I think that’s why people sort of like them. Even the Fastrack ads I did with Genelia.

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

You can be happy where you are.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us – and to maintain. That’s because without humility, it’s not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.