Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

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

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

We work to become, not to acquire.

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.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

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.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

I’m not a natural joiner.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.