Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

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.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I look at other people’s lives, and some people feel like they’re too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, ‚cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn’t have. So I still get them.

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

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

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Looking back on the production of ‚Nevermind,‘ I’m embarrassed by it now. It’s closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

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

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don’t give a damn about my future, I won’t either.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

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

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.