I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

The self is hateful.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

What’s done can’t be undone.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I have goals.

Bad men are full of repentance.

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

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Before all else, be armed.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

My life is my message.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

Small aim is a crime.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Don’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

I don’t want followers.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.