I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

The only thing you ever have is now.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Thirty was so strange for me. I’ve really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

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

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

The trained mind is a rich mind.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

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

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

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

We go on in our pleasures thinking they’re going to last forever.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

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.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I’m proud of.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

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

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.