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.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

Don’t ever play yourself.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

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 even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

Be not a slave of words.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

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

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Nobody knows me.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

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

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.