Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

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 have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

I think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Don’t ever play yourself.

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.

I never make conscious decisions.

My first recollection is that of a bugle call.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

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.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

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

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

Men must know their limitations.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

God always wants us to be growing.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

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.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the ‚Pilgrim’s Progress,‘ my first collection was of John Bunyan’s works in separate little volumes.

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