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

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

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

My future is righteousness.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

I let the American people down.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

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.