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

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

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

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

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

I’m not a bad person.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Silence is the mother of truth.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I think I have a dualistic nature.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.