I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

I want to negotiate what I’m worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, ‚This is what I’m owed now. Pay me.‘ And then we can talk.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I’m an old-fashioned mama’s boy.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

How can we help President Obama?

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.