I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

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

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Most of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

I’m not perfect.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

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 bragging if you can back it up.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.

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

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

I’m confident with my ability.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.