I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

I just want to be myself.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Libraries raised me.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

This lady is not for turning.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

The people in my songs are all me.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

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

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

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.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

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.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

I think that success is having fun.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

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?