I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

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.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

We become what we repeatedly do.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

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.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

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

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

I think and that is all that I am.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Be not a slave of words.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

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.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.