There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

No man is hurt but by himself.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

I like to let things breathe.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

I kinda live where I find myself.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don’t dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

Mind over mattress.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Be content to seem what you really are.