I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

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

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

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.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

The older you get, the better you get.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Never find fault with the absent.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

A person who is truly authentic doesn’t need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him – or herself.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.