If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

I kinda live where I find myself.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

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

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

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

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 much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Choose people who lift you up.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

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

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

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.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I’m tender on the inside.

I’m no genius.

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.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That’s the biggest risk I’ve taken so far.

Travel teaches toleration.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

I’ve learned never to say never.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.