I was raised to be independent.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

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

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

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

I believe time wounds all heels.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

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?

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

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.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

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

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.

I will not be triumphed over.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.