Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

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

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

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

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

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

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Money can’t buy life.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

No person is important enough to make me angry.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

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 am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.