We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

My future is righteousness.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

For me, education was power.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

I love to watch times change!

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

As you think, so shall you become.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

The self is hateful.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

You could tell ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

I have goals.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

My reputation grows with every failure.

I’ve learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.