All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I think I have always had a little humor.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

The self is hateful.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Don’t ever play yourself.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

When in doubt tell the truth.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.