I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

I’m not a bad person.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

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

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don’t agree with what I say very much. I’m an awful liar.

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

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

I have goals.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

We all have done something unethical.

Playing Etta James in the movie ‚Cadillac Records‘ really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It’s no fun being safe.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

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

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?