I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

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

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

I was becoming post-ideological.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

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

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

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!

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman’s body is very beautiful.

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

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

By indignities men come to dignities.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.