I think that I’ve had a very strange life.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

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.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

God has entrusted me with myself.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

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.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

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

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

I’ve got a very interesting background.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

I don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

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.