All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

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

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

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

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

I think we need more idiot control.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

My life has been very full.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

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.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.