I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

Fear is exciting for me.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

I let the American people down.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

All of our problems start in our minds.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

The older you get, the better you get.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

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 was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

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

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.