It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

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.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

My freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.