Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

What we live by we die by.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

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

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

When you give, it comes back to you.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Nature does nothing in vain.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

I think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

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.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

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.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.