I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

I’ve been lucky – all the ads I’ve got, I’ve got to be myself. I haven’t had to act too much or tried too hard to be someone I’m not. I think that’s why people sort of like them. Even the Fastrack ads I did with Genelia.

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

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

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 don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

The quote-unquote ‚description‘ of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it’s about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can’t deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

I’m on record that it didn’t really traumatize me to do away with some people.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

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

In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

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

I don’t kiss nobody’s butt.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.