The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I’d rather just do me and have people say, ‚Oh. That’s interesting,‘ than try to fit in.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

Everybody is entertained to death.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Everybody has a purpose.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

I came up from a difficult background.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Never complain and never explain.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

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.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

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

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

You can be happy where you are.