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’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

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

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

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

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

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

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

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

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

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.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

I never make conscious decisions.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

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