He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

What is true belongs to me!

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I can handle pain.

I believe time wounds all heels.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

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.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

It is always your next move.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.