I kinda live where I find myself.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

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.

Money does not change people, people change.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

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

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

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

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

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.

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

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

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

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

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

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

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

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.