I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

It is important to remember yourself.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

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

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‚Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.‘

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

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

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

I don’t like people looking at someone else’s image.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

NBC had a show called ‚The Toughest Bouncer in America‘ that I did. But I told them I didn’t like that term, ‚bouncer.‘ To me, it’s offensive. A bouncer likes to get physical, likes to put his hands on people.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.