I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

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.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

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

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

I’m not a natural born performer.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

You should never give up your inner self.

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist and it worries me. There’s that little bit that holds on: ‚Well, I’m almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.‘

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

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

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

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