I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

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

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

We do not judge the people we love.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

I don’t regret anything.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I came up from a difficult background.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

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 was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

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.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

My life has been very full.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

I let the American people down.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.