Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

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.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

I am happy and I’m single.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

I came up from a difficult background.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.