Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

Only the shallow know themselves.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I’m a genetic optimist.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

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.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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.

Forget the past.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

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.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

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.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

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

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

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

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?

Solitude is independence.