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

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

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

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

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

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

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.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

I just want to be myself.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.