Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

I give opinions, not advice.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

My life is mine to remember.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

I think I’ve got wiser.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

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

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

Knowledge is power.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

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

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.