Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

I am happy and I’m single.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

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

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

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

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Get mad, then get over it.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Actor’s life is very long.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

My whole life is a theater piece.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

The highest result of education is tolerance.