I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

Silence is a source of great strength.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I’m always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

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

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

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.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

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.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

I owe my solitude to other people.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

I think I have always had a little humor.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.