
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

I'm glad to know that that can happen. That that exists. And we really still care about each other a lot, ... The Road and the Radio.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

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.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

“I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I've been through are serious.

Men must know their limitations.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

I always play women I would date.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.