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

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

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

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

I’ve always written. There’s a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother’s papers were destroyed. I’d written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

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.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

The older you get, the better you get.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

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

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Solitude is independence.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

I don’t regret anything.

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.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

You can’t go backward in life.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

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

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?