I was so rude when I was a little girl.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

I am happy and I’m single.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

I just want to be myself.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

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.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

For me, education was power.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

I’m not perfect.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

I never expected to be anybody important.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.