I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

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.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

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.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

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

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

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.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

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.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

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.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

I came up from a difficult background.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

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