A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

When in doubt, don’t.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

It’s a very confusing era that we’re in.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

Vanity is but the surface.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

We are wiser than we know.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

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.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

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

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

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.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don’t know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.