I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

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.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Children are all foreigners.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Youth is wasted on the young.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

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.

I think I’ve got wiser.

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

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.