Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Observe all men, thyself most.

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples‘ attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

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

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

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

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Only the insecure strive for security.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

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.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.