The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

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

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

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.‘

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

God created man, but I could do better.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

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.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

I am who I am today because of my mother.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

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

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

I was so rude when I was a little girl.