Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

Never complain and never explain.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

I’m afraid to fail again.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

No man is hurt but by himself.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Some people would like me to be round again.

I think that I’m perfect.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

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

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

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

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Obviously everybody, if you’re playing in the league, you’ve got to have somewhat of an ego about how you play the game.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

Never take anything for granted.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

I’ve always had a problem with the average macho man – they’ve always been a threat to me.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

My whole life is a theater piece.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.