One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

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.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

For me, ‚risky‘ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

Observe all men, thyself most.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

I just want to be myself.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

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

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

It is always your next move.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.