In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part.

A wise man sees as much as he ought not as much as he can.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

I will always support legalization of the entheogens, which are, without a doubt, the most important and the most grossly misunderstood medicines on earth.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever.

I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

I did not get Botox because you wouldn't see any expression in my face. Hopefully it has paid off.

The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.

I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned.