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.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Be not a slave of words.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Never complain. Never explain.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

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.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

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

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

Single life is so overrated.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

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

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.