You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

I’ve learned never to say never.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Only you can control your future.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Success is the child of audacity.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I can do whatever I want.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

I worked my face off.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.