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

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I like pushing boundaries.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

My mother did not like children.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

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

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

You can’t do something forever.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

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

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

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

Never complain and never explain.

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.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Bad men are full of repentance.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘