The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

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.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

I love life because what more is there?

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

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.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

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.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.