Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

All of our problems start in our minds.

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

I get naturally uncomfortable when I’m put under a magnifying glass.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

What you are comes to you.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

It is important to remember yourself.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

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

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

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.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.