It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

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

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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.

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

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There’s no tricks. It’s honesty with big melodies.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

I’ve seen zero evidence of any nation on Earth other than Mexico even remotely having the slightest clue what Mexican food is about or even come close to reproducing it. It is perhaps the most misunderstood country and cuisine on Earth.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don’t do things to shock people. I’m not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don’t know how long I’m going to be on this planet. So while I’m here, I might as well make the most of it.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

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.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.