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I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

There is nothing you can control about love.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I'm really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can't wait for our fans to see and I'm looking forward to the "Hannah Montana" movie that will be out in the spring.

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.