You should never give up your inner self.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

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.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

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

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

I think I have a dualistic nature.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

There are no second acts in American lives.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

I’m not the most patient of people.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Everybody has a purpose.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

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.

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

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

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.