I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

I realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

I’m no genius.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

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

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.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

I let the American people down.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

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

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

He who knows himself is enlightened.