I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Fear is real, but so is love.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

I never hold a grudge.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

I am in my own head most of the time.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.