Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

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

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Everybody has a purpose.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

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

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

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

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

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Character is power.

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.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.