I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

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

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

The buck stops here!

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

Character is power.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom nervous organisation and therefore psychological powers have attained an undisputed maximum, may be considered, scientifically, as a natural centre of evolution of the primates.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I can do whatever I want.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

What you are comes to you.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.