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

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

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

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Only the shallow know themselves.

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.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

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

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

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

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

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

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

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.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Seeing is not always believing.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

It is important to remember yourself.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

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

I think I have a dualistic nature.

There is no unique picture of reality.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.