All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

I have wasted my hours.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

I give opinions, not advice.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

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

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

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

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

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

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I’m not the most patient of people.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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

Never confuse motion with action.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

I’m nobody, who are you?