I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Libraries raised me.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

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.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

I never hold a grudge.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

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.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

My life is real.

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

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

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