I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

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

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

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.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn’t financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

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.

I can do whatever I want.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

I hate to be smart.

Libraries raised me.

I want people to draw strength from me.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

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

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.