You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.

In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

If you don't have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you're looking back saying, I should've had a plan.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

You cannot walk in a great man's shoes without getting sores on your feet.

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.

Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.

It's better to have a pocket full of regrets than to never have lived.

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

Originally I considered myself a singer.

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.