Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

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

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

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

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I don’t like celebrities; I don’t hang out with them; I don’t relate to that life.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

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

All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

It is always your next move.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

I always wanted a family.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

I’m always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it’s like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I’m not fighting. I don’t have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout’s obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

You can’t go backward in life.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

As you think, so shall you become.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.