Don DeLillo Quotes

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.

I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that's one of the best ways to be.

It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity.

The roles I think about and can't stop thinking about - on the subway, when I'm riding my bike, when I'm running - are the things I connect to.

I've learned to keep a lot of stuff to myself.

When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.

I think 'Lost Boy' is more of a metaphor for oneself. When I listen to that song, I don't picture someone else. I kind of wrote it from a very honest place.

Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

Sometimes it's what you don't do that makes you who you are.

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

I am always writing to myself.

I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.