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

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

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.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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.

I am just one human being.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

For me, education was power.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Money does not change people, people change.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

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

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

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

I’m still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I’ve learned never to say never.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

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

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.