If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

I am in my own head most of the time.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

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

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

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

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

I’m an emotional person.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

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

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.