We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

I love making music. That’s what I love to do. So I don’t feel like there’s any need to take a break unless I want to.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don’t want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn’t do any good. It really doesn’t.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

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

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ‚cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

I can do whatever I want.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

I have always been that girl in the back who doesn’t say anything.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.