We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Never complain. Never explain.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

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.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

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.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

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

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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

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.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

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.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.