We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Theology is unnecessary.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.