Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

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

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

I’m not really book-smart.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

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.

Only you can control your future.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.