There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

It is important to remember yourself.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

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

I think I have always had a little humor.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

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

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

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

See things from the boy’s point of view.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

Little things affect little minds.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.