The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody’s interested in somebody who’s just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing – there is no latest thing. It’s all rubbish.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw’s plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

I think and that is all that I am.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

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.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

You’re looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

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

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

You should never give up your inner self.

Little things affect little minds.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.