Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

I’m not perfect.

Faith never makes a confession.

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

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

I kinda live where I find myself.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Love is a state of Being. 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.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

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

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Single life is so overrated.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

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.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

I’m on the autism spectrum. I don’t usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

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

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.