When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

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.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Single life is so overrated.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

My mother did not like children.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

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

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.