What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

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.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I was becoming post-ideological.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

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

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

I’m not perfect.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

What is true belongs to me!

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Live dangerously and you live right.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience – which is definitely an acquired taste.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.