“Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it’s to be whole.”

We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.

I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I’d learned how to be happy. Everybody has issues. For me, the challenge is intimacy, but I really didn’t start to get that until I turned 60.

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

We don’t need to be perfect. We’re not supposed to be perfect; we’re supposed to be complete. And you can’t be complete if you’re trying to be perfect.

Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We’re supposed to be complete and whole, and you can’t be whole if you’re trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

The bravest soldiers aren’t unafraid, but they’re the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

Don’t give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don’t know that when you’re young.

We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the old metaphor: You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

For me, it’s about camaraderie. My whole life is like, if something’s going on, nothing ever preceded fun. I always put my friends and the fun and the business ahead of everything.

We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren’t there.

I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

If this were the whole truth, we should, when entering into a new field, introduce only such quantities as can directly be observed, and formulate natural laws only by means of these quantities.

Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question how they harmoniously fit into the whole.

“The Diagnosis” had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes.