You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

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

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

I don’t really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

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

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

The older you get, the better you get.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

We cannot learn men from books.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

A person who is truly authentic doesn’t need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him – or herself.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

I get naturally uncomfortable when I’m put under a magnifying glass.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we’re getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we’ve ever had before.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

It’s not an easy course. It’s not designed to be. We’re not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.