Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

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

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

I grew up in a funny way.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Only the insecure strive for security.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

I just want to be myself.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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 always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.