Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Let’s embrace being not normal!

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

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

The people in my songs are all me.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

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.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

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.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

Honestly, I’ve been thinking lately about how boring I am. When I do get time to myself, I watch TV.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

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.

What’s done can’t be undone.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

Lost time is never found again.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.