I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

The older you get, the better you get.

For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned – take our post-traumatic growth – and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

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

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

We work to become, not to acquire.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

I already am a product.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.

You can be happy where you are.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.