The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

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

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

I live in a crazy time.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Speak low, if you speak love.

My life is my message.

I’m married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it’s one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.