I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Only you can control your future.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.

Some people would like me to be round again.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I am what I am. A fighter.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

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.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!

The human race is governed by its imagination.

We all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

We are all special cases.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.