It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

Only the shallow know themselves.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

If the critics are right that I’ve made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.

I’m not intelligent. I’m not arrogant. I’m just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn’t want to become a writer – it just happened.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

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.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

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