Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

My life is a party thrown for me by my own decisions.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.

The mark of a man is one who knows he can' control his circumstances - but he can control his responses.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

The Steadfast Love of the Lord is not Seasonal

It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.

I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.

I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus

Spiritual energy is the one kind that never runs out.

I realized that my battle to survive this war would have to be fought inside of me.

I prepare myself in the summer to play 48 minutes. It's not a logical goal, but that's the way I prepare.

You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.