The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

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

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

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 go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

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

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

I’ve written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that’s what’s been fun about looking back.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

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

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.