Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

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.‘

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

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

I was becoming post-ideological.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

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.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.