You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

I think I have always had a little humor.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

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.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Life is precious.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

God always has patience.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

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

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

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.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

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

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

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

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.