I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

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

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

What we think, we become.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Forget the past.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

I do believe in self-help.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I’ll have another hour of stand-up material where I’ll be able to go on the road and tour again.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

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

I’m not talent. Not considered ‚talent‘ by Lifetime. I’d like to say I’m their savior, but that would be cocky.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

It’s like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic self is going to follow you all through life, so make sure that it’s solid so it’s something that you can hold on and be proud of for the rest of your life.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Love is a state of being.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

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