I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Humble people ask for help.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

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

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

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

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

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

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

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.