Our necessities never equal our wants.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

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

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

In every parting there is an image of death.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

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.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Life is a dead-end street.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

I woke up one day and thought: ‚I want to write a book about the history of my body.‘ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

I have wondered about time all my life.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

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