Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

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

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

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.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

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

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

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

I am not young enough to know everything.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

I don’t care about age. Nor do I care about those who do not accept the science. I don’t have as much experience, and therefore I listen more. But I also have the right to express my opinion, no matter my age.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

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.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.