Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

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

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: ‚You know there’s no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won’t.‘ I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

I’m no genius.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

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.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.