When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

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

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

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

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

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

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

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.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

I’m nobody, who are you?

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

I don’t want followers.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

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.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

Solitude is independence.