When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

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

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

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

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

I already am a product.

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.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Choose people who lift you up.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

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

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

A woman has the age she deserves.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.