I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

I came up from a difficult background.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

I support Real Madrid. I’m a big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

Never find fault with the absent.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

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 am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

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

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

I don’t have all the answers.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

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.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.