There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

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.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

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

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

I never hold a grudge.

My life is my message.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

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.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

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

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.