I was so rude when I was a little girl.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

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

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

I am happy and I’m single.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Philosophy is the highest music.

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

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Dissents speak to a future age.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

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

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

The self is hateful.

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 would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.