These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

I let the American people down.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

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.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

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

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

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

What one has to do usually can be done.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

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

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

One must steer, not talk.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.