We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

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

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

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

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.