We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some ‚Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.‘

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

We all have done something unethical.

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.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

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

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

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

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

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

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

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

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

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

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

By indignities men come to dignities.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.