The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

Love is only one of many passions.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Football is a sad game.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

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.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

Fear is exciting for me.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

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

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.