I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

As you think, so shall you become.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Of course, individual change doesn’t make much difference in a holistic picture… but we need both systemic change and individual change.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

I have wasted my hours.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

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

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.

No man is hurt but by himself.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

What we think, we become.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

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.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.