Being seventy is not a sin.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

I’m comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it’s stretched. Ha ha.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman’s body is very beautiful.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

You should never give up your inner self.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

Learn to think continentally.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.

I’m not perfect.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I don’t want to be called a point guard, but I can’t stop it.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I already am a product.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.