I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

I don't know Kitten, " she said, zipping up her money belt, "but I'll tell you one thing--if it were a book, I wouldn't be able to put it down.

Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.

Are you committed to your highest vision for your life or are you just satisfied to dream?

Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.

We are not filled with the Spirit of God to do easy things. He fills us with His Spirit so we can do impossible things.

Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.

Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

A being whose awareness is totally free, who does not cling to anything, is liberated.

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.