You need to understand what works best for your own body.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

You can’t do something forever.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

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.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

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

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

The first wealth is health.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

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

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.