People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

We think too much and feel too little.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

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.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

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.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

You reach a point where you don’t work for money.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

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

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Never confuse motion with action.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

I’m not good at talking about myself.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

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.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.