Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

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.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

I already am a product.

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

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

I’ve learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you’d talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

It didn’t even occur to me that I’m the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

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.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

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

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

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

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

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.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.