I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

The reward of suffering is experience.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

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?

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

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

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

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

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

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

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

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.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

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

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

No man is hurt but by himself.

I use a stream-of-consciousness approach; if you don’t censor yourself, you end up with what you’re most concerned about, but you haven’t filtered it through your conscious mind. Then you craft it.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.