We are wiser than we know.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

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 am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

I’m addicted to placebos.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Our best thoughts come from others.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

I can handle pain.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.