All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

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.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

I can be a cruel person.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

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.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.