Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

I never make conscious decisions.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

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

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

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

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

I think we need more idiot control.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Jiu Jitsu is probably the No. 1 activity that I could recommend to someone to improve their lives overall.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.