Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

I don’t need to be vindicated, and I don’t want attention.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Character is power.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Small aim is a crime.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

No driver is perfect.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

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

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That’s the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

My reputation grows with every failure.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.