When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

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.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

I’m about being the best.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

I think I’ve got wiser.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

To create something you must be something.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

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

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Character is power.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Character is destiny.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

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

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

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

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

To make headway, improve your head.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.