Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

Libraries raised me.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

My life is my message.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

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.

I can express myself.

I can handle pain.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

I was raised to be independent.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

I think I have always had a little humor.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Some people would like me to be round again.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

I think and that is all that I am.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

I am in my own head most of the time.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

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

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.