Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

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

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

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

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

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

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.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

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.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

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

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.