I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.

A letter does not blush.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

If you consider the definition of authenticity, it’s saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It’s all authentic.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don’t notice they’re getting made fun of. So they’ll say something back that’s not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

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

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

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.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

One must steer, not talk.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

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

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.