I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

I hate being called an ‚icon.‘ I just don’t like it. That’s all there is to it.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.

For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I’m totally myself.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.