It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn’t care much for themselves, God doesn’t bless them. I didn’t want to be pope.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

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

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

You are victors, not victims!

The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Be as you wish to seem.