It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don’t know how not to.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

I gather from motivation around me – from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

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

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

I’ve done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I’ve done it, it’s been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

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.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

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.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

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

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.