I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

God made me and broke the mold.

I am not The Rock. I am Dwayne Johnson.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I’m talking about myself very directly.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

It is important to remember yourself.

You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you’re not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Silence is a source of great strength.