When you make the finding yourself – even if you’re the last person on Earth to see the light – you’ll never forget it.

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

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

I was becoming post-ideological.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Time discovers truth.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

I am two with nature.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

You should never give up your inner self.

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

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

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.