Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

Forgotten is forgiven.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

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

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

I’ve learned never to say never.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

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.

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

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

Always do whatever’s next.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

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

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.