I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

I think there is a little magic in the fact that I’m so totally real but look so artificial at the same time.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

I never fall in love.

Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

The only shame is to have none.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

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

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

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

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

All of our problems start in our minds.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.