I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

My life is mine to remember.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

I’m not perfect.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

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

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

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

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

I’m totally myself.

I got my own back.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Little things affect little minds.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

I listen to my old records and I think, ‚How did I ever get on the radio?‘

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.