A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

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.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

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.

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

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

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

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

I just want to be myself.

I really have no interest in myself.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Vanity is but the surface.