What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

I am just one human being.

I don’t do research. I never have.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

I came up from a difficult background.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Man is a universe within himself.

I hate to be smart.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

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.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

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.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

I think I’ve got wiser.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

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

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

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

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.