I kinda live where I find myself.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

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.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

The only shame is to have none.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

You can’t do something forever.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

I just want to be myself.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Be not a slave of words.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

I woke up one day and thought: ‚I want to write a book about the history of my body.‘ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.