What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

I can be a cruel person.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

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.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

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.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

I’m not a natural born performer.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

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.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

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.

Little things affect little minds.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.