I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

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

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

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.

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

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.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

We become what we repeatedly do.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

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.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.