A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

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.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don’t notice they’re getting made fun of. So they’ll say something back that’s not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

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.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

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.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

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

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.