I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

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

When I was little… I didn’t relate to princesses. I saw Maleficent, and I just thought she was so – she was so elegant.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

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

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

My life has been very full.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

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’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

My parents weren’t actors or studio executives.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

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

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

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

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

It is always your next move.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

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.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.