I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

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

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Silence is a source of great strength.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

I don’t think I get angry.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

I don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

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!

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

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.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.