I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

I give opinions, not advice.

I’m not a natural joiner.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

God has entrusted me with myself.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

I don’t regret anything.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?