I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

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

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

I’m not a bad person.

I think I have always had a little humor.

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

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

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

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

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

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.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

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

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.