I don’t want followers.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

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

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

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

I’ve been writing poems since I was in the Navy – to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

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

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

I just want to be myself.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

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.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

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 a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn’t as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

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

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

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.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

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

You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.