A woman has the age she deserves.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

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.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

You can be happy where you are.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.