Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

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.‘

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

You’re not a product of your nature. That is your genetic makeup or your nurture, the things that have happened to you. Of course those things affect you powerfully, but they do not determine you.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I hate to be smart.

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

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

I love being busy.

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.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I’m much healthier now.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.