A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting ‚All the Gods are bastards.‘

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

My concern today is not with the length of a person’s hair but with his conduct.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

Every man is his own hell.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I am in my own head most of the time.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Be as you wish to seem.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn’t have many manners as we now know.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

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.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

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.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

If he invited you out, he’s got to pay.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

In real life, I’m a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.