I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

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

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

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

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I can handle pain.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

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

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

I came up from a difficult background.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

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

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

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.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

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.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

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

Little things affect little minds.

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

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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