Nobody knows me.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

I think and that is all that I am.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

I think I have always had a little humor.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

Go on thinking that you don’t need to be read and you’ll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won’t feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

I’m so wrapped up in my work that it’s often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

I don’t like being alone.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.