To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

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.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Let go of yesterday.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

I can do whatever I want.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

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.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.