You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

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.

He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

A woman has the age she deserves.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

What is true belongs to me!

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

Travel teaches toleration.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

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

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

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

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?