It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

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

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

Fear is exciting for me.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

Truth is a pathless land.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

I really have no interest in myself.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

I’m only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else’s life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there’s no point in me blaming you for what’s wrong in my life.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.