Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

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.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we’ve all heard about before.

For a creative writer possession of the ‚truth‘ is less important than emotional sincerity.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

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.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

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

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Please don’t ask me to do that which I’ve just said I’m not going to do, because you’re burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

To be social is to be forgiving.

I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.

Half a truth is often a great lie.