What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It’s more ‘thematically personal’ – what’s up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.

Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can’t. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.

Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.

Nothing personal; I just don’t have people over.

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I’m shocked by the deeply personal things I’ve put into books without...

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

There was something about other people’s grief that was so exposing, so personal, that she felt she shouldn’t be looking.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women’s issues to the center of our foreign policy.

I destroyed myself because I thought no one will destroy me that way but I guess I was wrong… they’re stonger.

Mostly, I don’t write overtly personal stuff.

The study of personal branding brings one to realize everything is personal and everyone is branded.

I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.

But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching. Looking out of the window at the sea. At a boat in the...

My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I’m very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

I think it’s important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor....

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

I never cared about buying things for myself, like clothes. And then all of a sudden I realized how great it is to be very precise about the shirts that I wear and all the...

In the early ’70s, coming out of the ’60s, it was very hippy or it was very uniform, like The Beatles all wearing the same suit. Into the ’70s, it became much more about a...

Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mum told him to shut up. But she was smiling when she said it. Lucy liked that.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no control over it.

I’m glad that he’s got all this behind him. And I’m pretty sure that there’s a lot of people – and there are certain people that don’t report the news accurate for their own personal...

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I’m writing about, and that’s why they always end up being so personal – because the kind of artists I like, they...

I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.

The people who don’t know personal finance have TV shows about it.

My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I’m not Olympic champion, but I can teach the world about that.

Your journey on earth is personal journey of life.

I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn’t tell people who they can love or who they can marry.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

My personal favorite is Woody Allen, who is just amazing as a comedian.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone...

Sometimes I briefly touch the life I want. My hand brushes the surface as I pass it by.

A country whose citizens do not read is already late because “reading” is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of the learnt knowledge is the gateway to personal transformation. If you don’t read,...

You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don’t do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

There’s more to me than you see, another me down inside somewhere, full of hate, ready to hurt, cut, smash, or if maybe there’s no Other and there’s just me alone, then I’m not the...

I’m sick of being self-referential. I don’t want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

See with a different eye, visualize with a colorful mind, manifest your thoughts with the energy within.

Nobody, absolutely nobody, straps a bomb on their body because they were recruited from the Internet. It takes an enormous amount of personal face-to-face contact and time in order to recruit a young person into...

All my movies are achingly personal.

I’d never be where I am if more successful writers hadn’t taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.

A leader must be responsible for his people not his personal interest.

…but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.

My biggest thing is, I’m learning what it’s like to carry myself in a personal way and also a professional way: how I can be a leader and do multitasking.

Prayer will carry you toJudgment Day; it is your nourishment and your protection. In prayer you are closest to God. It is thenthat you develop your own personal relationship with God,