Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

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

I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It’s hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

I’m tender on the inside.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Travel teaches toleration.

Men must know their limitations.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

For greed all nature is too little.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

I think I have always had a little humor.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

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.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

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.

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

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Libraries raised me.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

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.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

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.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.