As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

My future is righteousness.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

All I wanted to do was write – at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn’t need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

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

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

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.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

The trained mind is a rich mind.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

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

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

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

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.