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

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

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

Mastery passes often for egotism.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

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

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‚one size fits all‘ standard for happiness.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

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

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

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

I think that I’m perfect.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

I never hold a grudge.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

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.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

You’re looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

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

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

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.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

I am in my own head most of the time.

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.

I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.