It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Science is but an image of the truth.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I really have no interest in myself.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.