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

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

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

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

When I was ten, I won the horseshoe-throwing contest at summer camp. I was also the Wiffle ball champion in my town.

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

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

He who angers you conquers you.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Money does not change people, people change.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

What I have in common with the character in ‚Truman‘ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

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.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

When I was a little boy in school I had to dress up as a bunny and there’s a picture of me with an annoyed face, and when I saw it, I thought I should name myself ‚Bad Bunny.‘

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Choose people who lift you up.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

I’m not a centerfold.