I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

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.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are – you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

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

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

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.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

We are wiser than we know.

The most propagandistic element of ‚Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.

Confine yourself to the present.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

My affection for Taiwan… is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.