It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

I wouldn’t say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.