I disagree with everything I used to say.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

I am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

I listen to my old records and I think, ‚How did I ever get on the radio?‘

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

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

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I think I’ve got wiser.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.