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

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

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

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

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.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

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.

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

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

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

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

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

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.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Be content to seem what you really are.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

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.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.