As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Be as you wish to seem.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

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

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

We are what we believe we are.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

There are no second acts in American lives.

To create something you must be something.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Never complain. Never explain.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

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

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.