Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

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

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

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

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

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!

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

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

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

I’m an emotional person.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

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

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

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 never wanted to write the sort of song that said, ‚Look at how abnormal and crazy and out there I am, man!‘

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Observe all men, thyself most.

I don’t think I get angry.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

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.