About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier… I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

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

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

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

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

I never fall in love.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

I was becoming post-ideological.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Single life is so overrated.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

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 spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

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.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.