Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy.

Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things

Maybe Duke was just the kind of person you don’t keep in your life, but the kind of person that changes your life forever.

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.

Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.

The secret is to just keep moving.

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

Don't be sad. Even if the world won't forgive you, I'll forgive you. Don't be sad. Even if you don't forgive the world, I'll forgive you. So please tell me. How do I make you forgive me?

John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark.

Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.