I was becoming post-ideological.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I kinda live where I find myself.

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

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

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

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

I don’t regret anything.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

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

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

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.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

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.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.