He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

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

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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

Single life is so overrated.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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.