I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

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.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

I always wanted a family.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

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

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

I am just one human being.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.