I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

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

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.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I’m still trying to figure it out.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

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.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Love is a state of being.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

I’m not who people expect me to be. I’m not Henry Kissinger.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

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

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.