I’m perpetually lonely.

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

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

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

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

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

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

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

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

You can be happy where you are.

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

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.