If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

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.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

I can dance to just about anything.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

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

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

I’m not a natural joiner.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

I owe my solitude to other people.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I’m sure I’ve changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up – as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I’ve changed my mind about some food that I didn’t like when I was young.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

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

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.