My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Only the insecure strive for security.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

I am the freest author in the world.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

We live in a bewildering world.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I’ve been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

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

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‚Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.‘ Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

To be social is to be forgiving.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.