The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.