My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

I’m much healthier now.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

Success has always been a great liar.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

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.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

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

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

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.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Libraries raised me.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.