It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

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.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

It’s nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren’t the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

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

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness – that there is something wrong.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

I’m addicted to placebos.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.