I’m perpetually lonely.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

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

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan’s most successful tools. He’ll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

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 keep working because I learn something new all the time.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

I can be a cruel person.

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.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

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.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

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.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

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

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

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

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.