I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

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

I don’t have all the answers.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Faith never makes a confession.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

I like to work.

The people in my songs are all me.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

Forget the past.

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

The self is hateful.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

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.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I can handle pain.