Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

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

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

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.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

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

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

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

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

You know, most people really don’t know me.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Never confuse motion with action.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

I don’t regret anything.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

By indignities men come to dignities.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

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

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.