I was so ashamed of who I was.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

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

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

We all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

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

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

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

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

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.

I’m comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it’s stretched. Ha ha.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

I think and that is all that I am.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

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.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

I’m not a regrets-type person.