I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

We all have done something unethical.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

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

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

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.

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.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

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.

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

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.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

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.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

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.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

I can be a cruel person.