I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

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 do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

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

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

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

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

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 only see clearly what I remember.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.