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.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

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

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

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

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.