I’m not good at talking about myself.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

The best is the enemy of the good.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

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.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

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.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

Dream and you shall become.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

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.

Silence is a source of great strength.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

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

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I’m doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.

I think that, ah, I’m a very goofy sort of person in many ways.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.