Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.
I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around.