Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

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

They know enough who know how to learn.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

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

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

Never complain and never explain.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

I can handle pain.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Nature has always had more force than education.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

There was a point where I really felt I had ‚penniless divorcee lone parent‘ tattooed on my head.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.