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

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

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.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

My mother did not like children.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

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

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

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 are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

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 didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn’t believe.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.