My life is my argument.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

I don’t think of myself as an artist. I’m just a guy who can write.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

I’m not who people expect me to be. I’m not Henry Kissinger.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

My life has been very full.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

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

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.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

I like pushing boundaries.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

To be awake is to be alive.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

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

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.