It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

I kinda live where I find myself.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

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

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

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

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

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

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

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

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.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

I’ve always felt that if I examine myself too much, I’ll find out what I know and don’t know, and I’ll burst the bubble. I’ve gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I’d rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

Desire is the very essence of man.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

Desire is the essence of a man.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

I’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‚I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.‘

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

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

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Mine is better than ours.

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.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!