I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

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.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

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.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

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

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short… if one follows patterns.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

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

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

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

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

My friends, there are no friends.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

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 knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

It is always your next move.