You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

I can handle pain.

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 had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

I got my own back.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

I can’t do nothing just a little.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

Aim for the highest.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

What one has to do usually can be done.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Don’t ever play yourself.

Choose people who lift you up.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

I don’t have all the answers.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

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.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.