The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
There are things that I value now that I didn't when I first went over there, like Zen Buddhism, which has become part of my life over the last couple years.
Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.
I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.
You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.