It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

I love imperfections.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

Love is the one wild card.

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

There are no rules when it comes to love.