I was becoming post-ideological.

Character is power.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

All of our problems start in our minds.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I just want to be myself.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

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.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

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.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

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 had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

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.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.