As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

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

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

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

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

My songs are the door to every dream I’ve ever had and every success I’ve ever achieved.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

Of course awards matter.

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

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

Giving up cannot be an option.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

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

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.