I moved out to New Zealand to live as I thought the warmth and peace and quiet would help me. I went away and changed my whole life routine.
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.
I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.
I've never really thought of my real life - you know, the one I wake up to and fall asleep to at night - as being a pop star's life.
I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
Harvey never had an original idea or thought in his life. I was out wandering around the country doing charity benefits, mainly, when I asked him to come along.
As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn't matter.
Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena.
I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.
On my first day on the set of 'Boston Legal,' I thought the director was calling me 'Candice' instead of 'Constance.' But I didn't realize he was actually talking to Candice Bergen.
And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.
Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.
I thought, 'I loved Batman, I loved Spider-Man, I love all these characters, but Catwoman is really different from any other one.'
Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all, and it's relaxed me.