Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

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

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

The self is hateful.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Some people would like me to be round again.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I believe time wounds all heels.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Love is a state of being.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.