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

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

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

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

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

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

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

My life has been very full.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

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.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

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

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

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

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Solitude is independence.

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.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

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

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?

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.