I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

You should never give up your inner self.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

I don’t like drinking, basically.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

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

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I love Velveeta cheese.

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.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world’s popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

My life is my argument.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

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.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Let go of yesterday.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

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.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.