I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

What you are comes to you.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

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

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

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.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male – or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you’ll see what I mean.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

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.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.