Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

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!

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

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

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

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

People may think I’m trying something new by telling stories, but they’re just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That’s what I do.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

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.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

Be content to seem what you really are.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Nobody knows me.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.