If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

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

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

I always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

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

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Everybody has a purpose.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

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’m not a natural born performer.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

I’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

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

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.