How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

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

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Humble people ask for help.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Everybody has a purpose.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished 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.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

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.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

For me, education was power.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

I’m afraid to fail again.