I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

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.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

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.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

I’m German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn’t exist any more.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

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

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

I don’t do research. I never have.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

Some people would like me to be round again.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I’m tender on the inside.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.