When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

To insult someone we call him ‚bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‚human‘ might be the greater insult.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Our life is made by the death of others.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.