As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

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

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

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

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

I’m not a bad person.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Enemies are so stimulating.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I kinda live where I find myself.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.