It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Observe all men, thyself most.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

Every man is his own hell.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

The mainstream is always under attack.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

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.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what’s going to happen in my life.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.