If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Be not a slave of words.

We all have done something unethical.

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

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

I believe time wounds all heels.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

Silence is a source of great strength.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

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

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the ‚Boston Phoenix,‘ and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that’s where I first saw ‚deadpan.‘

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

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