I believe time wounds all heels.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Never complain and never explain.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

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.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Solitude is independence.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

We all have done something unethical.

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

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

I grew up in a funny way.

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.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

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

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.