I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

You either make dust or eat dust.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

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

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

God created man, but I could do better.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

I can do whatever I want.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

My life has been very full.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

I never fall in love.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.