We are gods in the chrysalis.

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.

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

As much as we seek approval, we dread condemnation

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.

The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One.

I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?

I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.

The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Even if I were to suppose that I was dreaming and whatever I saw or imagined was false, yet I could not deny that ideas were truly in my mind.

...there is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the search for quantifying such a safe level is in vain.

The summit is the mere formality, the ceremonial demonstration of what was agreed to long ago, weeks, months before the summit.

If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.