Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

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.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

You can’t go backward in life.

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’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.

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

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

Competition is a sin.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.