In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

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

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Things do not change; we change.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

I never expected to be anybody important.

I don’t regret anything.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.