To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

I came up from a difficult background.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

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.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

You have to be someone.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

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

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

By indignities men come to dignities.