I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I just want to be myself.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

I’m addicted to placebos.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

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.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Youth is wasted on the young.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.