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

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

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

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

I let the American people down.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

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.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

I just want to be myself.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

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

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

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.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

For me, education was power.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

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.

I grew up in a funny way.

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

I woke up one day and thought: ‚I want to write a book about the history of my body.‘ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

We cannot learn men from books.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I never fall in love.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.