Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

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.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

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.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

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

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

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

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

I think I have always had a little humor.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

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

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

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

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.