There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

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.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

Our work is never over.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

Touring is hard on the body.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

The art is long, life is short.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I think that’s why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven’t given people everything.

I never hold a grudge.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand – good heavens! – that’s what I really call troublesome.

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

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Man is not made for defeat.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.