Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

I can be a cruel person.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

I let the American people down.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

My wife and I love each other very much.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Humble people ask for help.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

I used to get into a lot of fights.