I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

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

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

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

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

I don’t have all the answers.

I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

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.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

I think it speaks of all women having those few special things that make them feel feminine. And so when I was a little girl, I would associate Guerlain with that.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.