Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

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.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

I don’t crave applause. I’m not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I’m much more alive at home, I think.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

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.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

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

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

Faith never makes a confession.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

I don’t think I get angry.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

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

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

I’m not a bad person.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

The people in my songs are all me.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

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 easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.