“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.”

“Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.”

“There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.”

“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.”

“In my view, I’ve had tons of success but, in the way the world views success and they expect Idols to do, mine has just been a longer journey to get there. And I’m grateful for it. It just makes the journey that much sweeter in the end.”

“Perhaps I was expecting too much.”

“The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.”

“No man ever said at the end of his days, "I have read my Bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful about my soul."”

“It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.”

“Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.”