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.

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.

Single life is so overrated.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

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

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Everybody has a purpose.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

My life is my message.

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

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

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

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

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

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

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

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

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

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.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Man is a universe within himself.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

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

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

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

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.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.