Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

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

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

God has entrusted me with myself.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

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

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

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.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

I hate to be smart.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Fear is exciting for me.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.