It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

I’m not really book-smart.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

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.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

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.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

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.

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

I disagree with everything I used to say.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

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

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.