I hate to be smart.

An unemployed court jester is nobody’s fool.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

Someone once asked me, ‚How long does it take to do your hair.‘ I said, ‚I don’t know, I’m never there.‘

Our necessities never equal our wants.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

I don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

It is always your next move.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

I’m sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn’t anything going on on the outside!

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.