Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

I love being busy.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

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

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

I dressed more like a pop star, I suppose, rather than the traditional blazer and tall trousers other players went for.

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Ultimately, I’m not doing that much. I’m only doing what a human being who feels wants to do – in my way, without stepping out of my flow, while staying in my lane. Without, I guess, boring people.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the ‚Boston Phoenix,‘ and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that’s where I first saw ‚deadpan.‘

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Be content to seem what you really are.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

I believe time wounds all heels.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

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.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.