I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

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

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one’s own town.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

I’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Humble people ask for help.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I think and that is all that I am.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.