I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

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

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

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

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?‘

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

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

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

I believe time wounds all heels.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

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

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

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

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.