We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

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.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

The only shame is to have none.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

I love being busy.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

I hate to be smart.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

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.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Christians are not limited to any church.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.