You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

I’m a can-do girl.

Let go of yesterday.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Be as you wish to seem.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

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

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

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.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

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

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.