Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

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

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

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

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

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.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

We are wiser than we know.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

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

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.