It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

First make peace inside yourself.

If educated ones would behave like illiterates, how the nation would end corruption?

There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.

If anything has been accomplished through my life, it has been solely God’s doing, not mine, and He—not I—must get the credit.

Marriages are for the grownup people. Fortunately or unfortunately, I am not yet the one!

There’s no going back, and there’s no hiding the information. So let everyone have it.

My father and I were really like a team. I mean, he was very supportive. He'd come to every single one of my live shows.

I'm insecure, and I need the validation of strangers to feel whole. So, I need every single racist 12-year-old on the Internet to like me, or I don't feel complete.

I have learned to delegate.

I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.

While we still live in a capitalist society, we of course will fight for whatever reforms help make life better for working people.