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

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

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

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

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

Life is a song to me.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

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

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Never complain. Never explain.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

I am happy and I’m single.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

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.

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

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.