In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

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.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

It’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

I’m not perfect.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Never mistake motion for action.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

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.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

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

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

Time is money.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

I think I have always had a little humor.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.