I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

I was raised to be independent.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

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

I was becoming post-ideological.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

I came up from a difficult background.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

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

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

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

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.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

My life has been very full.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

We all have done something unethical.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

As a kid from Compton, you can get all the success in the world and still question your worth.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

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.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

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