“The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.”

I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I’d learned how to be happy. Everybody has issues. For me, the challenge is intimacy, but I really didn’t start to get that until I turned 60.

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

We don’t need to be perfect. We’re not supposed to be perfect; we’re supposed to be complete. And you can’t be complete if you’re trying to be perfect.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We’re supposed to be complete and whole, and you can’t be whole if you’re trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

The bravest soldiers aren’t unafraid, but they’re the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

Don’t give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don’t know that when you’re young.

We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the old metaphor: You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and The Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

My job, my whole life, I’ve always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don’t know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.

Assists is what Earvin is all about. That’s what my whole life has been, assisting others.

In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn’t the initial cost, it’s the humidity.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

If John McDonnell nationalised whole industries, they would be quickly taken over by bureaucrats more concerned about their careers than about customers.

My whole family’s been in the business. My whole family is crazy.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.