My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

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

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

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.

Love is a state of being.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

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.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

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.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

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.

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.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.